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Dreamland by Baker, Kevin is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Dreamland about?

A literary tour de force, a magnificent chronicle of a remarkable era and a place of dreams In a stunning work of imagination and memory, author Kevin Baker brings to mesmerizing life a vibrant, colorful, thrilling, and dangerous New York City in the earliest years of the twentieth century. A novel breathtaking in its scope and ambition, it is the epic saga of newcomers drawn to the promise of Americagangsters and laborers, hucksters and politicians, radicals, reformers, murderers, and sideshow odditieswhose stories of love, revenge, and tragedy interweave and shine in the artificial electric dazzle of a wondrous place called Dreamland. ** Amazon.com Review Kevin Baker's Dreamland is the kind of novel that begins with a two-page list of characters and ends with a nine-page glossary. In between, this vast, sprawling carnival of a book takes in Coney Island and the Lower East Side, midgets and gangsters, Bowery bars and opium dens, even Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. It is, in short, a novel as big, lively, and ambitious as Gotham itself, and if you can stomach some of the more garish local color, it's every bit as much fun. Set at the turn of the century, in a New York as polyglo

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Baker, Kevin
Publisher
Harper Collins
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9780060561048
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction
Rating
3.91 / 5 (201 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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