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Author:

Baker, Kevin, 1958-

Title:

Dreamland / Kevin Baker.

Edition:

1st Perennial ed.

Publisher:

Perennial,

Copyright Date:

2002, c1999

Description:

657 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Freud, Sigmund,--1856-1939.--Fiction.
Jung, C. G.--(Carl Gustav),--1875-1961--Fiction.
Triangle Shirtwaist Company--Fire, 1911.--Fiction.
Tammany hall.--Fiction.
Women clothing workers--Fiction.
Political corruption.--Fiction.
Immigrants.--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.

Summary:

A novel on turn-of-the century New York, portraying its various faces. The cast includes a Jewish seamstress who rebels against her rabbi father to become a union organizer, an Irish-American senator who rules the city with the help of corrupt police, and Freud who gives his views on crass America. By the author of Sometimes You See It Coming.

ISBN:

9780060934804 (pbk.) :
0060934808 (pbk.) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51165671

Locations:

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)