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Indlæser... The Gods of Gotham (A Timothy Wilde Novel) (original 2012; udgave 2013)af Lyndsay Faye (Forfatter)
Work InformationThe Gods of Gotham af Lyndsay Faye (2012)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. A well written historical mystery. Clever plot twists at the end. Characters that were engaging. Yet... The writing wasn't jiving with me. It was good, and I could see many really enjoying her descriptive use of language, but it just didn't wring a perfect tone with me. Still... I will probably read the next in the series. Very good. 1845: la ciudad de Nueva York forma su primera fuerza policial. La gran hambruna de la patata golpea a Irlanda. Estos dos eventos cambiarán la ciudad de Nueva York para siempre... Timothy Wilde atiende un bar y ahorra cada dólar con la esperanza de conquistar a la chica de sus sueños. Pero cuando sus sueños son destruidos por un incendio que devasta el centro de Manhattan, no le queda más remedio que aceptar un trabajo en el nuevo Departamento de Policía de la Ciudad de Nueva York. Una noche, regresando exhausto de sus rondas, Tim choca con una niña de no más de diez años... cubierta de sangre. Ella afirma que docenas de cuerpos están enterrados en el bosque al norte de la calle Veintitrés. Timothy no está seguro de creerle, pero a medida que la imagen de un asesino brutal se revela lentamente y la ira anti-irlandesa infecta la ciudad, la estrella de cobre renuente se ve envuelta en una batalla que puede costarle todo...
New York City of 1845 is a cacophany of competing lexicons. In The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye, the city’s political bosses, religious leaders, starving Irish immigrants, impoverished nativists, civil leaders, race-baiters, headline writers, popular novelists, street hawkers, sinners, lovers, and criminals each employ language as distinctive as a police report’s. But also whispering among the leaning hovels of babble in Five Points are secret loyalties, monstrous acts, and madness. ... Amid many intersecting factions, venues, and intents, the novel retains a glorious and tragic coherence. Without being epigraphic, The Gods of Gotham is a feast of language, 1845’s New York City as a magnificent assembly of newspaper articles, poems, sensational novels, crime reports, advertisements, amateur theatrics, hawkers’ calls, political promises, and flash conversations, making those tender and awful things that can’t be said even more keenly felt. HæderspriserDistinctions
New York City, 1845. Timothy Wilde, a 27-year-old Irish immigrant, joins the newly formed NYPD and investigates an infanticide and the body of a 12-year-old Irish boy whose spleen has been removed. No library descriptions found. |
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Spoiler alert****** I was a bit upset that she decided to have her admirable leading female character prostitute herself. Maybe it is some sort of feminist twist that in a repressive society, where you can’t control anything, selling your body is some sort of admirable act of defiance, but I don’t buy it ( )