The Cold Millions
Autor Jess Walteren Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 feb 2021
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It is 1909 in Spokane, Washington. The Dolan brothers are living by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his dashing older brother Gig dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. When Rye finds himself drawn to suffragette Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, her passion sweeps him into the world of protest and dirty business. But a storm is coming, threatening to overwhelm them all . . .
The Cold Millionsis an intimate story of brotherhood, love, sacrifice and betrayal set against the panoramic backdrop of an early 20th century America. Jess Walter offers a stunning, kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation grappling with the chasm between rich and poor, dreams and reality, in a sensational tale that resonates powerfully with our own time.
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'A work of irresistible characters, harrowing adventures and rip-roaring fun . . . One of the most captivating novels of the year'Washington Post
'Stunning'San Francisco Chronicle
'Warm and deeply humane, this transporting novel is a staggering achievement from a landmark writer'Esquire
'A vivid, propulsive, historical novel with a politically explosive backdrop that reverberates through our own'USA Today
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241374573
ISBN-10: 024137457X
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 144 x 222 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Viking
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 024137457X
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 144 x 222 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Viking
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Jess
Walter
is
the
author
of
six
novels,
includingThe
Financial
Lives
of
the
PoetsandThe
Cold
Millions.Beautiful
Ruinswas
aNew
York
Timesbestseller,
andWe
Live
in
Waterwas
one
of
Barack
Obama's
books
of
2019.
Jess
Walter
lives
in
Spokane,
Washington
with
his
family.
Recenzii
Ariotous,
propulsiveadventure
story,
packed
withcaptivating
characters
A brilliantly multifaceted panorama of early 20th-century America . . .Walter is a writer whose work deserves a wide readership
Abeautiful, lyric hymn to the power of social unrest in American history. It'sfunny and harrowing, sweet and violent, innocent and experienced
A work ofirresistible characters, harrowing adventures and rip-roaring fun... bursting with a dazzling range of outrageous characters.One of the most captivating novels of the year
Reminiscent of the stylistic tricks of F Scott Fitzgerald...With its rebellion against inequality and debates about capitalism, there are clear echoes from 1909 to the US today. Incitement to riot, dreadfully topical since the assault on the Capitol last month, also gets a look in. ButThe Cold Millions offers more: a study of individuals living, willingly or unwillingly, through tumult.
Colourful and punchy
Walter is a class act...the fierce struggle for free speech and workers' rights is genuinely stirring.
A timely and poetic read that vividly depicts the American melting pot at its most unequal and volatile...a compelling portrait of America at the dawn of the 20th Century
Expansive, beguiling . . .Athrillingyarn that simultaneously underscores the cost of progress and celebrates the American spirit
It's atremendouswork,a vivid, propulsive, historical novel with a politically explosive backdrop that reverberates through our own
Jess Walter isa superb storyteller. As polished and hard as a diamond,The Cold Millionsreminds us of America's tempestuous past and suggests that all this is anything but past
Walter marshalsa motley, fascinating cast of characters so finely drawn that they lift from the page.I haven't encountered a more satisfying and moving novel about the struggle for workers' rights in America
Alayered, multi-character panorama
It's often said that a novel contains the world; Walter brings new meaning to this phrase,peoplingThe Cold Millionswith vaudeville stars, hobos, suffragists, tycoons, union agitators, policemen, and dozens of other vibrant characters.Warm and deeply humane, this transporting novel is a staggering achievement from a landmark writer
The fact that the same author has written books as wildly different and all as transporting asThe Zero, The Financial Lives of the Poets, Beautiful Ruins, and now this latesttour de forceistestimony to Walter's protean storytelling power and astounding ability to set a scene, any scene . . . We have heard that Jess Walter writes nonstop: Seven days a week, 365 days a year. Please, never stop.
Superb....a splendid postmodern rendition of the social realist novels of the 1930sby Henry Roth, John Steinbeck, and John Dos Passos, updated with strong female characters and executed with pristine prose. This could well beWalter's best work yet.
A great tapestry of busy-ness...Walter's descriptive passage are marvellous
A brilliantly multifaceted panorama of early 20th-century America . . .Walter is a writer whose work deserves a wide readership
Abeautiful, lyric hymn to the power of social unrest in American history. It'sfunny and harrowing, sweet and violent, innocent and experienced
A work ofirresistible characters, harrowing adventures and rip-roaring fun... bursting with a dazzling range of outrageous characters.One of the most captivating novels of the year
Reminiscent of the stylistic tricks of F Scott Fitzgerald...With its rebellion against inequality and debates about capitalism, there are clear echoes from 1909 to the US today. Incitement to riot, dreadfully topical since the assault on the Capitol last month, also gets a look in. ButThe Cold Millions offers more: a study of individuals living, willingly or unwillingly, through tumult.
Colourful and punchy
Walter is a class act...the fierce struggle for free speech and workers' rights is genuinely stirring.
A timely and poetic read that vividly depicts the American melting pot at its most unequal and volatile...a compelling portrait of America at the dawn of the 20th Century
Expansive, beguiling . . .Athrillingyarn that simultaneously underscores the cost of progress and celebrates the American spirit
It's atremendouswork,a vivid, propulsive, historical novel with a politically explosive backdrop that reverberates through our own
Jess Walter isa superb storyteller. As polished and hard as a diamond,The Cold Millionsreminds us of America's tempestuous past and suggests that all this is anything but past
Walter marshalsa motley, fascinating cast of characters so finely drawn that they lift from the page.I haven't encountered a more satisfying and moving novel about the struggle for workers' rights in America
Alayered, multi-character panorama
It's often said that a novel contains the world; Walter brings new meaning to this phrase,peoplingThe Cold Millionswith vaudeville stars, hobos, suffragists, tycoons, union agitators, policemen, and dozens of other vibrant characters.Warm and deeply humane, this transporting novel is a staggering achievement from a landmark writer
The fact that the same author has written books as wildly different and all as transporting asThe Zero, The Financial Lives of the Poets, Beautiful Ruins, and now this latesttour de forceistestimony to Walter's protean storytelling power and astounding ability to set a scene, any scene . . . We have heard that Jess Walter writes nonstop: Seven days a week, 365 days a year. Please, never stop.
Superb....a splendid postmodern rendition of the social realist novels of the 1930sby Henry Roth, John Steinbeck, and John Dos Passos, updated with strong female characters and executed with pristine prose. This could well beWalter's best work yet.
A great tapestry of busy-ness...Walter's descriptive passage are marvellous