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Book Description: Picador, 2006. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Tracking provided on most orders. Bookseller Inventory # mon0000067256

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Book Description: Picador USA, United States, 2006. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Reprint. 211 x 141 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. It is 1930, and ground has just been broken for the Empire State Building. One of the thousands of men who will come to work high above the city is Michael Briody, an Irish immigrant torn between his desire to make a new life in America and his pledge to gather money and arms for the Irish republican cause. When he meets Grace Masterson, an alluring artist who is depicting the great skyscraper's rise from her houseboat on the East River, Briody's life suddenly turns exhilarating--and dangerous--for Grace is also a paramour of Johnny Farrell, Mayor Jimmy Walker's liaison with Tammany Hall and the underworld. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780312425746

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Book Description: Picador USA 01/04/2012, 2012. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New book. Shipped from US within 10 to 14 business days. Established seller since 2000. This item is printed on demand. Bookseller Inventory # KB-9780312425746

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Book Description: 2005. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 141mm x 19mm x 211mm. 390 pages. 0.349. Bookseller Inventory # 9780312425746

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Book Description: Picador USA. Paperback / softback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, Empire Rising, Thomas Kelly, It is 1930, and ground has just been broken for the Empire State Building. One of the thousands of men who will come to work high above the city is Michael Briody, an Irish immigrant torn between his desire to make a new life in America and his pledge to gather money and arms for the Irish republican cause. When he meets Grace Masterson, an alluring artist who is depicting the great skyscraper's rise from her houseboat on the East River, Briody's life suddenly turns exhilarating--and dangerous--for Grace is also a paramour of Johnny Farrell, Mayor Jimmy Walker's liaison with Tammany Hall and the underworld. Thomas Kelly is the author of two previous novels: "Payback," called "the best story about New York's labor unions, corrupt contractors and organized crime since "On the Waterfront"" (S"an Francisco Chronicle"); and "The Rackets," described as "an elegy for the city's old Irish working class, and even for its tangled, unavoidable dealings with the Mafia" ("The New York Times Book Review"). Kelly, who worked for ten years in construction, is a graduate of Fordham University and Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He lives in New York City. A "New York Times "Notable BookA "Chicago"" Tribune "Best Book of the Year It is 1930, and ground has just been broken for The Empire State Building, dubbed "the Eighth Wonder of the World." One of the thousands of men working high above the city is Michael Briody, an Irish immigrant torn between his desire to make a new life in America and his pledge to gather money and arms for the Irish Republican cause. When he meets Grace Masterson, an alluring artist who is depicting the great skyscraper's rise from her houseboat on the East River, Briody's life turns exhilarating--and dangerous, for Grace is also a paramour of Johnny Farrell, Mayor Jimmy Walker's liaison with Tammany Hall, and the New York underworld. Their heartbreaking love story--which takes place both in the rough neighborhoods of the Bronx and amid the swanky nightlife of the '21' Club--is also a chronicle of the city's passage from a working-class enclave to a world-class metropolis, and a vivid reimagining of the conflict that pitted the Tammany Hall political machine against the boundlessly ambitious Franklin Delano Roosevelt. With "Payback" and "The Rackets," Thomas Kelly has shown himself to be a master of the urban thriller. With "Empire Rising" he takes his work to a new level. In his telling of the story of the people who made America's most distinctivecity, New York is brought exuberantly to life. ""Empire Rising" is an ode to urban grease; I'll never look at that grand old building the same way again . . . There is a compelling muscularity to [Kelly's] work--the plots barrel along, the characters are wildly colorful--and there is a dead-on authenticity to the dialogue and the atmospherics. There is also a bracing, and rare, appreciation for the sheer satisfaction of honest work . . . Kelly is a big-hearted and admirably ambitious writer. He wants to show the city top to bottom, from Jimmy Walker's boudoir to the Irish pubs in the South Bronx where the construction workers drink their paychecks . . . Kelly's city is palpably alive and passionate, and very recognizably New York, especially in the vertiginous rush of upward mobility, the fissures it causes within families, the loyalties strained, the traditions lost."--Joe Klein, "The New York Times Book Review" "Kelly mixes his fictional characters with historical ones, and the dialogue and atmospherics are pitch-perfect."--Ihsan Taylor, "The New York Times Book Review" "Kelly has obviously done his research. New York in 1930 shines through the pages with high resolution. Kelly gives us impressive cameos of Babe Ruth, the photographer Lewis Hines, and Cab Calloway, as well as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose presidential ambitions drive much of the political deal-making in the novel . . . The swiftness with which Kelly. Bookseller Inventory # B9780312425746

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