Dreamland

Description

The first book of the City of Fire trilogy -- in the tradition of E.L. Doctorow's RAGTIME, a sweeping tale of the immigrant experience in New York and Coney Island in the early 20th Century. 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.

KEVIN BAKER is the author of the bestselling novel DREAMLAND, picked by the Christian Science Monitor as one of the 10 Best Books of 1999 and PARADISE ALLEY, an extended NYT Bestseller which was selected for the Today Show Book Club by Frank McCourt.