Dreamland - Paperback - 9780060852726

A literary tour de force, a magnificent chronicle of a remarkable era and a place of dreamsIn 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.

• | Author: Kevin Baker
• | Publisher: Harper Perennial
• | Publication Date: Jan 03, 2006
• | Number of Pages: 688 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0060852720
• | ISBN-13: 9780060852726