Dreamland

First UK edition. Thick 8vo. 517 pp. Purple cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine.

Author's second novel and first volume in the City of Fire trilogy about New York. It was followed up by the best-selling Paradise Alley (2002), concluding with Strivers Row (2006). The vertiginous trajectory of a young Eastern European stowaway from his 1909 arrival at Ellis Island, through his rise to power in the Manhattan underworld, to the birth pangs of the labour union movement. "A wild amusement park ride... Historical fiction at its most entertaining." –The New York Times Book Review