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Dreamland: A Novel (English Edition) Formato Kindle

Edizione Inglese di Kevin Baker (Autore) Formato: Formato Kindle
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A literary tour de force, a magnificent chronicle of a remarkable era and a place of dreams

In a stunning work of imagination and memory, author Kevin Baker brings to mesmerizing life a vibrant, colorful, thrilling, and dangerous New York City in the earliest years of the twentieth century. A novel breathtaking in its scope and ambition, it is the epic saga of newcomers drawn to the promise of America—gangsters and laborers, hucksters and politicians, radicals, reformers, murderers, and sideshow oddities—whose stories of love, revenge, and tragedy interweave and shine in the artificial electric dazzle of a wondrous place called Dreamland.

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  1. ISBN-13
    978-0060852726
  2. Memo
    Su Kindle Scribe
  3. Editore
    HarperCollins e-books
  4. Data di pubblicazione
    6 ottobre 2009
  5. Lingua
    Inglese
  6. Dimensioni file
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Kevin Baker is the bestselling author of the novels Dreamland, Paradise Alley, and Sometimes You See It Coming. He is a columnist for American Heritage magazine and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Harper's, and other periodicals. He lives in New York City with his wife, the writer Ellen Abrams, and their cat, Stella.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000FC11II
  • Editore ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins e-books (6 ottobre 2009)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 4844 KB
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  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supportato
  • Miglioramenti tipografici ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
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  • Memo ‏ : ‎ Su Kindle Scribe
  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 676 pagine
  • Recensioni dei clienti:
    3,8 3,8 su 5 stelle 252 voti

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Ian Gilchrist
5,0 su 5 stelle Dazzling historical fiction
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 28 febbraio 2017
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Phenomenal bit of historical fiction that brings the teeming, crime ridden streets of early 20th century New York to ultra vivid life.

Found it very hard to put down - my highest compliment. Am now on to the next novel in Baker's trilogy, 'Paradise Alley'.
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Jim Duggins, Ph.D.
5,0 su 5 stelle Downtown is a Long Way From Up
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 20 aprile 2012
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Kevin Bakers historical novel, "Dreamland," is a story of America's underclass as workers, rightly or wrongly, have always been called. "Dreamland" is part fantasy of the comic joys of an amusement park, Coney Island, one of the very few pleasures of the desperately poor, aka immigrant, populations. In this book, Kevin Baker takes us into the lives of tenement dwellers, prostitutes, street peddlers, all the imaginable impoverished who were considered little more than waste on Manhattan's streets. In addition, the novel is well-peppered with the savage criminal element who controlled New York at the time. As the third book of the City of Fire Trilogy, "Dreamland" has received high marks from most of America's prestigious review columnists.

These many categories of city dwellers are shown as the groups gathered together but especially through the protagonist characterizations of a few who show us the lives of the very poor contrasted with another group of the rich and powerful who lead the reader to empathize with the plight of selected character types.

Basically the book follows the pattern of singling out protagonist "types" to present in various episodic named "Parts." This strategy allows the author to keep the action and conflict active and the readers on the edge of their seats.

Although a big, fat book, "Dreamland" is full of history and emotion. One never wearies of its length. Again, the author's immense knowledge of the tiniest details of the history as well as his profound observation of human behavior enables him to build believable multi-faceted characters in often incredible circumstances (e.g., a man who publicly displays his ability to break another's back, a rat baiting contest, police beatings of strikers, Chinese opium dens including the tools of users , etc.). In short, author Baker takes the reader deep into the experience, the time and place of 19th/early 20th Century America.

Not to be forgotten, too, is the writerly skills of this author. His prose is clean and lyrical, well chosen figurative language and sharp descriptions of his characters. The voice is perfect as it depicts each character.

"Dreamland" grabs you in the first sentence and doesn't let go till the last. The phrase,"turns you every which way but loose," seems an apt description. A great reading experience that you'll treasure always.
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Dave Schwinghammer
4,0 su 5 stelle Coney Island setting and Yiddish jargon make this worthwhile
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 21 maggio 2005
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Having read SOMETIMES YOU SEE IT COMING, one of the best baseball books I've read, I was interested to know if the Kevin Baker who wrote DREAMLAND and PARADISE ALLEY was the same person. It's the same guy, but Baker has the chops to do both, as he is the chief historical researcher for the NEW YORK TIMES.

As I began to read, I was immediately reminded of several other books. AMERICAN TRAGEDY, THE ALIENIST, THE GANGS OF NEW YORK, and even CLOCKWORK ORANGE. The setting is New York City with Coney Island featured most of the time. There are gangsters and factory girls and Tammany Hall politicians and they all speak their own unique language, some Yiddish and Bowery slang. Thankfully I checked out the back of the book. Sure enough, there was a glossary. You'll be paging back and forth for the entire read.

There really isn't any main character, but Esse Abramowitz; her brother "Gyp the Blood;" Esse's lover Josef Kolykia, alias "Kid Twist;" and Tammany Hall politician Big Tim Sullivan do most of the heavy lifting. Trick the Dwarf tells the story. There is a dramatis personae provided at the beginning to help you keep track.

The plot begins when Kid Twist saves Trick the Dwarf's life at a Rat Bating by nailing Gyp the Blood with a shovel. For the rest of the book, Gyp the Blood is out to get Kid Twist. A subplot involves Esse Abramowitz's increasingly involvement in the Labor movement. She also works at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co., and if you're up on your history, you know what happened there.

I was a bit disappointed in the ending. Trick the Dwarf suggests what MIGHT have happened to the major actors, rather than telling us. There's also a subplot involving Sigmund Freud that seems to be included just to add some historical credence. As Baker tells us in his acknowledgments, Freud really did visit America in 1909, but his conflict with Carl Jung doesn't seem to have a whole lot to do with anything.

Despite my misgivings, I heartily recommend this book for the Coney Island atmosphere and the Yiddish jargon alone.
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Joan B., NY
3,0 su 5 stelle so dark
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 29 novembre 2021
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Pretty relentless for most of the 600 or so pages. Hard to keep interested when you don’t see any good outcomes anywhere, with lots of violence and abuse along the way. The writing was good enough that I still stuck with it, but as many reviewers have said, the ending was a cop out. If you are going to kill off the main character then just make up your mind and do it.
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robert henderson
5,0 su 5 stelle exactly as advertised /fast ahipping
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 22 novembre 2023
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