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They came by boat from a starving landand by the Underground Railroad from Southern chainsseeking refuge in a crowded, filthy corner of hell at the bottom of a great metropolis. But in the terrible July of 1863, the poor and desperate of Paradise Alley would face a new catastropheas flames from the war that was tearing America in two reached out to set their city on fire. ** Amazon.com Review Paradise Alley , Kevin Baker's follow-up to Dreamland , makes full use of his skills as a top historical researcher. Paradise Alley concerns a tumultuous moment in the record of the Civil War: the 1863 New York riots that followed President Lincoln's decision to create a draft. Baker refers to the street violence as one of the worst instances of civic unrest in American history. Yet one can't tell a compelling story with simple pronouncements. Baker gives us a handful of characters--fictional, yet emblematic--who lead readers through the dense weave of class, race, ambition, gender politics, and violence in mid-19th-century America. More importantly, Baker has that rare gift of establishing crucial links between the past and the present, of helping a reader understand that we live with

Who reads Paradise Alley : A Novel?

Author

Baker, Kevin

Publisher

Harper Collins

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061748981

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.4 / 5 (174 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14