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Peter Quinn Banished Children of Eve, A Novel of Civil War New York
Penguin 0140230033 / 9780140230031 MASS MARKET PAPERBACK Very Good
0140230033 Editorial Reviews n nFrom Publishers Weekly nQuinn's remarkably accomplished debut is a historical saga set in New York in the summer of 1863. nCopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. n nFrom Library Journal nSet in New York City during the Civil War years, this first novel echoes with Stephen Foster songs and the disparate voices of its teeming throngs of citizens while focusing on the experience of Irish Catholic immigrants. Quinn offers a strong, imaginative, and well-researched examination of the life of common people in that time through portraits of hucksters, minstrel actors, speculators, soldiers, and domestic servants whose lives touch. Their stories, set against a background of emigration, war, gangs, racism, stock exchange crashes, shanty towns, draft resistance, prostitution, strikes, and the manipulation of the uneducated masses to embrace a national interest, suggest that characterization of any past as "the good old days" is always a matter of who's doing the talking. Thoroughly enjoyable, educational, and highly recommended for fiction collections. n- Sheila Riley, Smithsonian Inst. Libs., Washington, D.C. nCopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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