Dreamland

<p><em>A literary tour de force a magnificent chronicle of a remarkable era and a place of dreams</em></p><p>In a stunning work of imagination and memory author Kevin Baker brings to mesmerizing life a vibrant colorful thrilling and dangerous New York City in the earliest years of the twentieth century. A novel breathtaking in its scope and ambition it is the epic saga of newcomers drawn to the promise of America--gangsters and laborers hucksters and politicians radicals reformers murderers and sideshow oddities--whose stories of love revenge and tragedy interweave and shine in the artificial electric dazzle of a wondrous place called Dreamland.</p>