Metropolis

Elizabeth Gaffney (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

496 Seiten

2006
Arrow Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-09-947876-8 (ISBN)

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German Georg arrives in Manhattan on the run from a scandal. He becomes a stableboy, tending circus-owner Barnum's menagerie, until he is framed for an arson attack and finds himself once again on the run. He falls into the hands of the Whyos gang, with whom he is reborn as an Irish labourer, unaware of the part in crime they have in mind for him.

This story is set in New York, in the year 1868. Irish Beatrice is a 'hot-corn girl', selling corn-on-the-cob to passers-by, and picking their pockets into the bargain. German Georg, arriving in Manhattan on the run from a scandal - or perhaps a crime - back in his native Hamburg, becomes a stableboy, tending circus-owner Barnum's menagerie, until he is framed for an arson attack and finds himself once again on the run. He falls into the hands of the Whyos, Beatrice's gang, with whom he is reborn as an Irish labourer before being led to take a job as a sewerman, unaware of the part in crime they have in mind for him. Happy in his new job, as he falls in love with Beatrice, whom the Whyos have selected to teach him to pass as an Irishman, all seems well, until the gang's leader chooses Beatrice as his First Girl and their criminal plans begin to become clear...

Elizabeth Gaffney is an editor at the Paris Review. She lives in New York. Metropolis is her first novel.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.4.2006
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Historische Romane
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-09-947876-5 / 0099478765
ISBN-13	978-0-09-947876-8 / 9780099478768
Zustand	Neuware