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From KIRKIS REVIEW The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire anchors a generations-long family tragedy in this brooding historical melodrama. Fleeing his violent, corrupt fatherthe first of the novels string of brutal patriarchs16-year-old Junior Millwood travels in steerage from Ireland to the teeming New York City of 1906, a journey that begins a lively immigrant bildungsroman. Right off the boat hes beaten and robbed, has his meager earnings skimmed by a sly foreman and gets entangled with tenement sirens. Fortunately, his love for Moira, the winsome lass he left behind, endures; soon he brings her over, marries her and secures her a job at his garment factory. Alas, the factory is the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Company, where a 1911 fire killed 146 workers. The disaster, grippingly depicted here, was worsened by blocked exits, faulty fire escapes and other code violations, and became a rallying cry for the labor movement. It also leaves Junior bereft and burdened with a shameful secret This first act of his saga is a vivid, well-researched recreation of working-class life in the early 20th century, supplemented with 14 pages of documentary endnotes. ** Nominated for 2011 Global eBook Awar

Who reads Edge of the Triangle : a Novel?

Author

Duane Harold Cook

Publisher

Novelist Duane Cook

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780615461908

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14