Book
Books to go bag 191 : golden hill
Record details
- ISBN: 1501163876
- ISBN: 9781501163876
- ISBN: 9781501163883 (paperback)
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Physical Description:
10 books + 1 guide in bag.
print - Edition: First Scribner trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., [2018]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published in Great Britain in 2016 by Faber & Faber Limited."--Title page verso. |
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| Subject: | Historical fiction Thrillers (Fiction) Historical fiction New York (State) History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Fiction |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Town of Hanover Libraries.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Howe Library | BTG BAG 191 | 31254003152820 | Main floor | Available | - |
Summary:
"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 arrives at a countinghouse door on Golden Hill Street: this is Mr. Smith, amiable, charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion shimmering. For in his pocket, he has what seems to be an order for a thousand pounds, a huge sum, and he won't explain why, or where he comes from, or what he is 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? Rich in language and historical perception, yet compulsively readable, Golden Hill is a story "taut with twists and turns" that "keeps you gripped until its tour-de-force conclusion" (The Times, London). Spufford paints an irresistible picture of a New York provokingly different from its later metropolitan self but 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"--