The Cold Millions
$28.48
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
17 May 2022
Summary
Spokane, 1909. The Dolan brothers are living by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his dashing older brother Gig dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. When Rye finds himself drawn to suffragette Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, her passion sweeps him into the world of protest and dirty business. But a storm is coming, threatening t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241985526 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241985528 |
| Author: | Jess Walter |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 17 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 245g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 21mm |
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Expansive, beguiling … A thrilling yarn that simultaneously underscores the cost of progress and celebrates the American spirit
A riotous, propulsive adventure story, packed with captivating characters * Daily Mail *A brilliantly multifaceted panorama of early 20th-century America … Walter is a writer whose work deserves a wide readership * Sunday Times *A beautiful, lyric hymn to the power of social unrest in American history. It’s funny and harrowing, sweet and violent, innocent and experienced * Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See *A work of irresistible characters, harrowing adventures and rip-roaring fun … bursting with a dazzling range of outrageous characters. One of the most captivating novels of the year * Washington Post * Reminiscent of the stylistic tricks of F Scott Fitzgerald…With its rebellion against inequality and debates about capitalism, there are clear echoes from 1909 to the US today. Incitement to riot, dreadfully topical since the assault on the Capitol last month, also gets a look in. But The Cold Millions offers more: a study of individuals living, willingly or unwillingly, through tumult. * FT *Colourful and punchy * The Times *Walter is a class act…the fierce struggle for free speech and workers’ rights is genuinely stirring. – Max Davidson * Mail on Sunday *A timely and poetic read that vividly depicts the American melting pot at its most unequal and volatile … a compelling portrait of America at the dawn of the 20th Century * Sunday Express *Expansive, beguiling … A thrilling yarn that simultaneously underscores the cost of progress and celebrates the American spirit * O Magazine *It’s a tremendous work, a vivid, propulsive, historical novel with a politically explosive backdrop that reverberates through our own * USA Today *
About The Author
Jess Walter
Jess Walter is the author of six novels, including The Financial Lives of the Poets and The Cold Millions. Beautiful Ruins was a New York Times bestseller, and We Live in Water was one of Barack Obama’s books of 2019. Jess Walter lives in Spokane, Washington with his family.
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