Book
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- CENTRAL: First Floor Collection (2 copies)
New York : the novel
Call Number
- FICTION RUTH (CEN)
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Publication Information
Doubleday,
Physical Description
xvi, 862 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary
The intertwining fates of characters rich and poor, black and white, native born and immigrant, bring to life the momentous events that shaped New York City and America: the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center, the excesses of the Gilded Age, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the trials of World War II, the near-demise of New York in the 1970s and its roaring rebirth in the '90s, and the attacks on the World Trade Center.
Subjects
- Historical fiction.
- New York (N.Y.) > History > Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.) > Civilization > History > Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.) > Economic conditions > History > Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.) > Emigration and immigration > History > Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > History > Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.) > Race relations > History > Fiction.