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Golden Hill by Spufford, Francis, 1964- author is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Golden Hill about?

New York, A Small Town On The Tip Of Manhattan Island, 1746. One Rainy Evening In November, A Handsome Young Stranger Fresh Off The Boat Pitches Up At A Counting-house Door In Golden Hill Street: This Is Mr Smith, Amiable, Charming, Yet Strangely Determined To Keep Suspicion Simmering. For In His Pocket, He Has What Seems To Be An Order For A Thousand Pounds, A Huge Amount, And He Won't Explain Why, Or Where He Comes From, Or What He Can Be Planning To Do In The Colonies That Requires So Much Money. Should The New York Merchants Trust Him? Should They Risk Their Credit And Refuse To Pay? Should They Befriend Him, Seduce Him, Arrest Him; Maybe Even Kill Him? As Fast As A Heist Movie, As Stuffed With Incident As A Whole Shelf Of Conventional Fiction, Golden Hill Is Both A Novel About The 18th Century, And Itself A Book Cranked Back To The Novel's 18th Century Beginnings, When Anything Could Happen On The Page, And Usually Did, And A Hero Was Not A Hero Unless He Ran The Frequent Risk Of Being Hanged. This Is Fielding's Tom Jones Recast On Broadway - When Broadway Was A Tree-lined Avenue Two Hundreds Yards Long, With A Fort At One End Flying The Union Jack And A Common At The Other, G

Who reads Golden Hill?

Author

Spufford, Francis, 1964- author

Publisher

Faber and Faber Limited

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780571225194

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

3.88 / 5 (2,501 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14