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Paris Review advisory editor Gaffney crafts a richly atmospheric debut in which a bewildered immigrant loses his heart to a tough Irish lass in 1860s New York. Introduced first as "the stableman," the young hero finally identified as Frank Harris fled his native Germany to start a new life. But he's quickly framed by a master criminal and arsonist, then kidnapped by Beatrice O'Gamhna and told he must join the notorious Whyo gangor else. Frank's luck veers from terrible to wonderful and back again in this suspenseful novel, and the jobs he acquireslaying cobblestones, working in sewers, building the Brooklyn Bridgeallow Gaffney to describe the burgeoning activity of a city absorbing its immigrants into projects that increase the power of the metropolis. Her portrait of the real but poorly documented Whyo gang gives them a handsome, despicable leader, his seemingly benign but powerful mother and a secret means of communicating described in Asbury's The Gangs of New York . Two graduates of the Women's Medical College who offer abortions to poor women, a black Civil War veteran who befriends Frank, and a benevolent business man with Dickensian resonances add more period color. While

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Author

Gaffney, Elizabeth

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400061501

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller

Rating

4.4 / 5 (480 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14