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"Randall Silvis is a masterful storyteller."--"The New York Times Book Review" "[Poe is] a challenging subject, but Silvis handles it deftly in this well-written novel."--"The Washington Post" "Both a historical glimpse into New York's bawdy past and a classic whodunit."--"Daily News"
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It is the summer of 1840--for some in New York City a season of prosperity; for others, another season of desperation. This is the milieu of "On Night's Shore," an amazing literary thriller from an author hailed by the "New York Times Book Review" as "a masterful storyteller." Randall Silvis's "On Night's Shore" opens with one of the most spellbinding scenes in contemporary writing. A girl tosses her baby from a warehouse window, then follows the infant into the Hudson River far below. The only witness to this desperate act is a ten-year-old street arab named Augie Dubbins, a boy who survives by the motto, "In calamity, opportunity." Augie does what he can to make a few pennies from the girl's tragedy. In doing so he encounters another of the desperate ones, a struggling young journalist named Edgar Allan Poe, a poet and critic and newspaper hack whose penchant for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time has not only stymied his advancement as a writer but has earned him more than a few enemies. Poe, too, hopes to use the girl's misfortune to fatten his threadbare purse. His efforts to do so lead to the discovery of the body of yet another young woman, and the ensuing investigation of her murder soon entraps Poe in a mire of murder, greed, lust and power that stretches from the Five Points slums to the gleaming heights of Fifth Avenue. But On Night's Shore is much more than just a page-turner. Here we see deep into the troubled psyche of Edgar Allan Poe, the father of all detective stories. We see the darkness that drove him, the demons that plagued him. We also see the tenderness with which he treated his young wife, soon to die herself, and his devoted, stalwart mother-in-law, and the avuncular kindness he lavished on Augie Dubbins, who in ten short years has witnessed more brutality and perversity than even Poe could imagine. And we see all of these characters entwined in the tentacles of a power struggle to control the fate of New York City, the sleazy underbelly of a political and business elite that speaks as much to today's society as it did to Poe's. Seldom does an historical thriller so authentically recreate a time and place as does "On Night's Shore." Not since E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime have readers been treated to such a rich cast of qlcharacters, both real and imagined, or to a story so suspenseful and compelling-all of it rendered in some of the most luminous prose being written today. In this, his eighth book of fiction, Randall Silvis brilliantly bridges the gap between serious and popular literature. "On Night's Shore" is a stunning and haunting achievement.
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- VerlagPan Macmillan
- Erscheinungsdatum2002
- ISBN 10 0312982100
- ISBN 13 9780312982102
- EinbandTapa blanda
- Anzahl der Seiten368
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