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Paradise Alley : a novel by Baker, Kevin is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Paradise Alley : a novel about?
Three remarkable women have nothing but one another to rely on as they seek to protect their homes and families from the brutality of a city -- and a nation -- gone mad. Paradise Alley is a story of the intersection of the Irish- and African-American experiences in the crucible of nineteenth-century New York -- of race and hatred, of love and war, of risk and dauntless courage. At the height of the Civil War, what begins with strong words and a few broken bottles will, over the course of five days, escalate into the worst urban conflagration in American history. Hundreds of thousands of poor Irish immigrants smolder with resentment against a war and a president that have cost them so many of their young men. When word spreads throughout New York's immigrant wards that a military draft is about to be implemented -- a draft from which any rich man's son with $300 can buy an exemption -- trouble begins to spill into the streets. Down in the waterfront slum of Paradise Alley, three women -- Deirdre Dolan O'Kane, Ruth Dove, and Maddy Boyle -- struggle with their private fears as they wait for the storm to descend on them. Deirdre, whose lace-curtain sensibilities have always kept her at
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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Baker, Kevin
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780060195823
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, History
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (174 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14