Dreamland, a novel, Kevin Baker
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Dreamland, a novel, Kevin Baker
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eng
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libretto or text
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fiction
Main title
Dreamland
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Kevin Baker
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a novel
Summary
This is Dreamland, a uniquely fierce and magical tale that delivers both a sweeping chronicle of America at the turn of the century and an intimate, heart-wrenching portrait of the lives of its denizens. Among the thousands of immigrants who arrive in New York harbor is an Eastern European stowaway called Kid Twist, who soon earns his keep as an enforcer for the ruthless gangster Gyp the Blood. Soon though, Kid brutally splits with Gyp, leaving him bleeding from a shovel wound to the head in a rancid basement on the Lower East Side. His life now in jeopardy, Kid flees to Brooklyn, finding asylum with a Coney Island carny known as Trick the Dwarf. Kevin Baker's deftly imagined blend of meticulous historical research and assured narrative invention recreates a world bursting at the seams, a world of freak shows, cataclysmic exhibitions, mad dwarves, and bathing beauties
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- Women clothing workers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Audiobooks
- Historical fiction
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- Triangle Shirtwaist Company -- Fire, 1911 -- Fiction
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- Women clothing workers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Audiobooks
- Historical fiction
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Travel -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Political corruption + History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Jung, C. G., Carl Gustav, 1875-1961 -- Travel -- Fiction
- Triangle Shirtwaist Company -- Fire, 1911 -- Fiction
- Content1
- Other version1