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The City Below
by Carroll, James
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0395825229
- ISBN 13
- 9780395825228
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Co, New York, 1994. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good Condition. First Impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 422 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. This book has been read and has marks or some creasing but remains in excellent condition.. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. Carroll's superbly detailed vision of Boston is . . . an excellent chronicle of three decades during which starry-eyed idealism was brought low by political cynicism and personal greed. In The City Below, as in his earlier novels, James Carroll works the American counterparts to the precincts of Graham Greene. His characters engage with sexual, religious, and ethical dilemmas we pray not to face, in a Boston no other writer portrays with such scruple or power. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Historical; United States; 1960s; ISBN: 0395825229. ISBN/EAN: 9780395825228. Pictures are of actual item and are not stock images Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10677. . 9780395825228
Synopsis
In this compelling family saga set during a tumultuous era in Boston history, 1960-1984, James Carroll chronicles the lives of two brothers, Nick and Terry Doyle, as they strive to move beyond the strictures of their working-class Charlestown neighborhood to" the city below." Though one brother is drawn to the worlds of politics and real estate and the other to the underworld of organized crime, their fates remain inextricably linked as each struggles to break free of the blood tie holding him captive to the past. As in his previous best-selling novels Mortal Friends and Family Trade, James Carroll seamlessly blends fiction and history to create a gripping tale of family bonds and ethnic violence, vows and betrayals, and political intrigue in the inner sanctums of both church and state.
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10677
- Title
- The City Below
- Author
- Carroll, James
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0395825229
- ISBN 13
- 9780395825228
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- BZDB137 historical fiction, boston, 1960s, Fiction; Historical; United States; 1960s; Unbranded ISBN: 0395825229 EAN: 9780395825228 Carroll, James The City Below
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