The Gods of Gotham

by: Lyndsay Faye

The Gods of Gotham
Author: Lyndsay Faye

Publisher: Headline Review

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Format: Paperback / softback

Publication date: 13 September 2012 (UBR)

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ISBN: 0755386760 ISBN 13: 9780755386765

The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye

THE ALIENIST meets GANGS OF NEW YORK, THE GODS OF GOTHAM is a strikingly vivid and compelling historical novel - one of THE must-reads for 2012. Top page

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August 1845 in New York; enter the dark, unforgiving city underworld of the legendary Five Points...After a fire decimates a swathe of lower Manhattan, and following years of passionate political dispute, New York City at long last forms an official Police Department. That same summer, the great potato famine hits Ireland. These events will change the city of New York for ever. Timothy Wilde hadn't wanted to be a copper star. On the night of August 21st, on his way home from the Tombs defeated and disgusted, he is plotting his resignation, when a young girl who has escaped from a nearby brothel, crashes into him; she wears only a nightdress and is covered from head to toe in blood. Searching out the truth in the child's wild stories, Timothy soon finds himself on the trail of a brutal killer, seemingly hell bent on fanning the flames of anti-Irish immigrant sentiment and threatening chaos in a city already in the midst of social upheaval. But his fight for justice could cost him the woman he loves, his brother and ultimately his life... Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Headline Review

Edition details Unabridged

City: London

Edition: UBR

Pages: 480

More info: height 197 mm width 136 mm weight 290 gr thickness 31 mm

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Age recommended: General/trade

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC23) 813.6

Record updated at: 21 May, 2013 time: 00:50


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