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Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now

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By Patrick McGrath (au)
Year: 2005
Pages: 243
Binding Hardcover
ISBN 747574294

Product Code: 1437968880

Description

It’s 1778, and a man is haunted by the memory of his mother standing under a gibbet with a rope around her neck. Having defied the British forces occupying N.Y., she must pay for her revolutionary activities. But 50 years on, her son harbors a festering guilt for his inadvertent part in her downfall. Then, in a 19th-cent. N.Y., a ruthless merchant’s son is denied the love of his life through his father’s prejudice against the immigrants flooding into the city. Finally, a Manhattan psychiatrist tries to treat a patient reeling from the destruction of the World Trade Center. But she fails to detect the damage she herself has sustained. Here is a trio of stunning fictional tales from the hand of a master storyteller.

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