Entertaining .
outsized .
A big, expressive debut.
--Wall Street JournalAs rich and raucous as the city it celebrates.
, The Oprah Magazine Admirably fearless .
Mathews has talent in buckets.
--New York Times Book Review One of Entertainment Weekly's 20 Must-Read Books of the Fall One of the New York Post's 15 Books You Won't Be Able to Put Down This Fall One of Southern Living's 50 Heart-Pounding Historical Novels to Read Right Now One of Kirkus's 13 Debuts & Breakthroughs That Live Up to the Hype A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice One whirlwind week of love, blackmail, and betrayal in teeming prewar New York June 1939.
Francis Dempsey and his shell-shocked brother, Michael, are on an ocean liner from Ireland bound for their brother Martin's home in New York City, having stolen a small fortune from the IRA.
During the week that follows, the lives of these three brothers collide spectacularly with big-band jazz musicians, a talented but fragile heiress, a Jewish street photographer facing a return to Nazi-occupied Prague, a vengeful mob boss, and the ghosts of their own family's revolutionary past.
When Tom Cronin, an erstwhile assassin forced into one last job, tracks the brothers down, their lives begin to fracture.
Francis must surrender to blackmail or have his family suffer fatal consequences.
Michael, lost and wandering alone, turns to Lilly Bloch, a heartsick artist, to recover his decimated memory.
And Martin and his wife, Rosemary, try to salvage their marriage and, ultimately, the lives of the other Dempseys.
Meanwhile, with the Depression receding, all of New York is suffused with an electric feeling of hope, caught up in the fervor of the World's Fair and eager for good times after a decade of deprivation.
From the smoky jazz joints of Harlem to the opulent Plaza Hotel, from the garrets of vagabonds and artists in the Bowery to the backroom warrens and shadowy warehouses of mobsters in Hell's Kitchen, Brendan Mathews brings.
Back Bay Books este o amprentă a Little, Brown and Company, o editură deținută de Hachette Book Group.
Back Bay Books se concentrează în primul rând pe publicarea de ediții broșate ale cărților literare de ficțiune și non-ficțiune.
Amprenta este cunoscută pentru că lansează broșuri de înaltă calitate, atât cu titluri contemporane, cât și clasice, incluzând adesea lucrări care au fost publicate anterior pe copertă cartonată de Little, Brown și alte tipărituri din cadrul Hachette Book Group.
Back Bay Books își propune să facă literatura mai accesibilă pentru cititori, oferind ediții broșate la prețuri accesibile de romane, memorii, biografii și alte genuri apreciate.
Unii autori cunoscuți ale căror lucrări au fost publicate sub amprenta Back Bay Books includ, printre alții, Donna Tartt, Jhumpa Lahiri, David Sedaris, David Foster Wallace și Malcolm Gladwell.
Catalogul amprentei include o selecție diversă de titluri, atrăgând o gamă largă de gusturi și interese literare.
Back Bay Books The world of tomorrow, paperback/brendan mathews
