Metropolis
Subtitle: a novel
By: Elizabeth Gaffney.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
Subjects: Bridges -- Design and construction -- Fiction; Arson -- Investigation -- Fiction; German Americans -- Fiction; Immigrants -- Fiction; Circus -- Fiction; Gangs -- Fiction; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Following a fire in P.T. Barnum's circus stable, a young German immigrant becomes caught up in New York's criminal underworld while falling in love with an Irish girl, as he becomes the target of a city-wide arson investigation.