Make Me A City (eBook)

a novel of Chicago

Jonathan Carr (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
512 Seiten
Scribe Publications Pty Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-925693-51-5 (ISBN)

Infos

How does a place become a city? Whose stories will survive and whose will be lost? How do you know if you truly belong?It is 1800. On desolate, marshy ground between Lake Michigan and the Illinois River, a man builds a house and a city is born This masterful debut novel spans Chicago's tumultuous first century, showing how a city is made: by a succession of vivid, sometimes villainous individuals and their cumulative invention, energy, and vision.We meet the city's unacknowledged founder, a descendant of colonisers and slaves; witness the dispersal of the indigenous Native Americans; hear stories of an entrepreneur, an engineer, a courageous female reporter, and a corrupt alderman; and track the lives of immigrants from all over the world, as they struggle for acceptance in a country they have built.Chicago, its inhabitants and its history are brought to dazzling, colourful life in this epic tale that speaks of not just one city but America as a whole, and of how people come to find their place in the world.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.3.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 1-925693-51-1 / 1925693511
• ISBN-13: 978-1-925693-51-5 / 9781925693515