Faces Along the Bar - Hardcover

Cranny, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1566492327 ISBN 13: 9781566492324

Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers, 2002

Synopsis

Faces Along the Bar is a masterful tale of a community swept up in the volatile racial and social tensions of the period, and a profound questioning of the reality and validity of the American dream.

About this title

About the Author:

OBERT CRANNY was born in Ireland and moved to the United States in 1954. The author of one previous novel, THE STORM(originally published under the title ON US THY POOR CHILDREN), he lives in New York City.

From Publishers Weekly:

Set in Brooklyn in 1957 just before the Dodgers left town for L.A., this highly suspenseful story chronicles the changing face of America as minorities move into an Irish neighborhood and some of the old taboos about intermarriage begin to erode. When police detective Red Dahlgren announces his engagement to an Italian girl, Margo, a first for the neighborhood, the union goes largely unopposed by his family and friends. However, unknown to anyone, Red's brilliant and beautiful sister, Annie, who is just about to graduate high school with a college scholarship, is secretly dating a young black man, Toby Walters, who is headed for Columbia. After a party celebrating Red's engagement and Annie's graduation, Annie is found murdered. As Annie and Toby's relationship becomes common knowledge, it is assumed even by the police that Toby is the killer. There are two viable suspects, a drunken army buddy of Red's, who was in the middle of an alcoholic blackout at the time of the murder, and a smarmy neighbor who claims he saw Toby emerging from the alley where Annie was killed. The suspense builds and Toby is hunted down, wounded when he tries to run and charged with murder. He escapes, and there is a final showdown on the Brooklyn Bridge. The title refers to Kerrigan's, a gathering place somewhat like the bar in The Iceman Cometh, where a group of working-class regulars dissect each bit of gossip and offer their often misinformed opinions on what is taking place. Cranny (The Storm) provides a striking portrait of 1957 Brooklyn in all its glory and squalor.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1566492327
• ISBN 13: 9781566492324
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288