The Gilded Cage

by Troy Soos

Book Overview

Dime-novelist Marshall Webb and reformer Rebecca Davies reunite to take on Tammany Hall and the city's ruthless elite as they unravel a web of corruption in turn-of-the-century New York. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157566769X
• ISBN13: 9781575667690
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

A Good Evocation of 19th Century New York

A treat for those who like well crafted historical fiction. We get an aroma of rough and tumble New York of 1893. The squalor, disease, poverty, corruption, cynicism, poll-stuffing. Nothing like our New York, of course, where such things have been banished forevermore.While reading this, I could not help comparing the atmosphere it evoked with that in the time travel classic "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. That was set in 1870s New York. But close enough, perhaps, from our perspective. The Dakota building figures in both, as do other landmarks. The difference is that Soos's book gives a more in-depth study of the warts and the underbelly.