Moon's crossing
By: Barbara Croft.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Suicide victims -- Fiction.; Suicide victims -- Family relationships -- Fiction.; Police -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.; Prostitutes -- Fiction.; Ferries -- Fiction.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Jim Moon, a Union Army veteran and visionary, leaves his young wife and son in 1893 to visit the World's Columbian Exposition. There he discovers that the fair has attracted not only America's greatest artists and thinkers but its drifters and con men. In Pullman Town, a model city south of Chicago, Moon is drawn into a complex labor strike and sees that the bright future the fair promised is compromised by greed. Unable to recapture his early vision of America, Moon takes his own life, and in so doing generates a surprising love story between a common young woman and a corrupt policeman as well as a major upheaval for his neglected son"--Publisher's description.