The Cold Millions

The Cold Millions
Jess Walter
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 352pg
10 Feb 2022 UK
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9780241985526
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The Dolan brothers live 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 to overwhelm them all . . . The Cold Millions is an intimate story of brotherhood, love, sacrifice and betrayal set against the panoramic backdrop of an early 20th century America.
A beautiful, lyric hymn to the power of social unrest in American history. It' s funny and harrowing, sweet and violent, innocent and experienced; it walks a dozen tightropes. Jess Walter is a national treasure * Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See * The fact that the same author has written books as wildly different and all as transporting as The Zero, The Financial Lives of the Poets, Beautiful Ruins, and now this latest tour de force is testimony to Walter' s protean storytelling power and astounding ability to set a scene, any scene . . . We have heard that Jess Walter writes nonstop: Seven days a week, 365 days a year. Please, never stop. * Kirkus, starred review * Superb. . . . a splendid postmodern rendition of the social realist novels of the 1930s by Henry Roth, John Steinbeck, and John Dos Passos, updated with strong female characters and executed with pristine prose. This could well be Walter' s best work yet. * Publishers Weekly, starred review * An ambitious, large-hearted, exhilarating novel that leaves you wanting more . . . Very, very funny * The Times, on Beautiful Ruins * Intelligent and thought-provoking, but also a lot of fun * Sunday Times, on Beautiful Ruins * Magic . . . A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart * New York Times, on Beautiful Ruins *
Jess Walter is the author of six novels, including The Financial Lives of the Poets. 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.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780241985526
Published: 10 Feb 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 21mm
Weight: 245g
Pages: 352

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