The City below (Paperback)

In this compelling family saga set during a tumultuous era in Boston history, 1960-1984, James Carroll chronicles the lives of two brothers, Nick and Terry Doyle, as they strive to move beyond the strictures of their working-class Charlestown neighborhood to" the city below." Though one brother is drawn to the worlds of politics and real estate and the other to the underworld of organized crime, their fates remain inextricably linked as each struggles to break free of the blood tie holding him captive to the past. As in his previous best-selling novels Mortal Friends and Family Trade, James Carroll seamlessly blends fiction and history to create a gripping tale of family bonds and ethnic violence, vows and betrayals, and political intrigue in the inner sanctums of both church and state. Publishers Weekly called The City Below a" superbly detailed vision of Boston . . . an excellent chronicle of three decades during which starry-eyed idealism was brought low by political cynicism and pe

General

Imprint:	Houghton Mifflin
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 1996
First published:	November 1996
Authors:	James Carroll
Dimensions:	222 x 146 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	422
ISBN-13:	978-0-395-82522-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-395-82522-9
Barcode:	9780395825228

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