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The Big Crowd (2013)

by Kevin Baker(Favorite Author)

3.14 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

061885990X (ISBN13: 9780618859900)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: The premise of this story was a good one - a really good one. But the dialogue was so hard to read (it was done like an old black -and-white detective movie - schmaltzy and stilted, y'know dame?) and the narrative was overly descriptive (like reading a Stephen King book - how we don't need to know everything and every gesture in minute detail to get the point?) The ending wrapped up nicely, but it was a relief to get there.
review 2: I received this book for free from Goodreads first reads. This is another of Kevin Baker's great New York novels. He excels at making you see, hear and smell the New York of former times. While I think that his City Of Fire trilogy is better, this is still a page turning account of New York with the larger than life people that o... morenly the city seems to produce. There is plenty of crime and personal conflict in this chronicle of postwar politics and how it makes and destroys the lives of two brothers. less

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