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Golden Hill by Francis Spufford (Hardcover, 2016)
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Author:Spufford, Francis. New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, 1746. Should they befriend him, seduce him, arrest him; maybe even kill him?. An astonishing first novel, as stuffed with incident as a whole shelf of conventional fiction, Golden Hill is both a book about the eighteenth century, and itself a novel cranked back to the form's eighteenth century beginnings, when anything could happen on the page, and usually did, and a hero was not a hero unless he ran the frequent risk of being hanged.
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'The best 18th century novel since the 18th century - I was completely engrossed.' Frances Stonor-Saunders, Saturday Review 'The teeming, cart-torn New York of Golden Hill is as real as it gets.' New Statesman New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, 1746. One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat pitches up at a counting-house door in Golden Hill Street: this is Mr Smith, amiable, charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion simmering. For in his pocket, he has what seems to be an order for a thousand pounds, a huge amount, and he won't explain why, or where he comes from, or what he can be planning to do in the colonies that requires so much money. Should the New York merchants trust him? Should they risk their credit and refuse to pay? Should they befriend him, seduce him, arrest him; maybe even kill him? As fast as a heist movie, as stuffed with incident as a whole shelf of conventional fiction, Golden Hill is both a novel about the 18th century, and itself a book cranked back to the novel's 18th century beginnings, when anything could happen on the page, and usually did, and a hero was not a hero unless he ran the frequent risk of being hanged. This is Fielding's Tom Jones recast on Broadway - when Broadway was a tree-lined avenue two hundreds yards long, with a fort at one end flying the Union Jack and a common at the other, grazed by cows. WC Rich in language and historical perception, yet compulsively readable, Golden Hill has a plot that twists every chapter, and a puzzle at its heart that won't let go till the last paragraph of the last page. Set a generation before the American Revolution, it paints an irresistible picture of a New York provokingly different from its later self: but subtly shadowed by the great city to come, and already entirely a place where a young man with a fast tongue can invent himself afresh, fall in love - and find a world of trouble.Product Identifiers
PublisherFaber & Faber
ISBN-139780571225194
eBay Product ID (ePID)16046662734
Product Key Features
Book TitleGolden Hill
AuthorFrancis Spufford
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2016
Number of Pages352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height240mm
Item Width165mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorFrancis Spufford
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 09 Nov, 2016
Francis Sufford
Can't recc this content, Maybe interesting for mixed race historical researchVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
