Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York

Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York

A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Fiction Book of 2017 * A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * A Seattle Times Favorite Book of 2017 * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year * A Library Journal Top Historical Fiction Book of the Year * Winner of the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, and the Desmond Elliott Prize

â€œGorgeously craftedâ€¦Spufford's sprawling recreation here is pitch perfect.â€ â€”Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air

â€œA fast-paced romp that keeps its eyes on the moral conundrums of America.â€ â€”The New Yorker

â€œDelirious storytelling backfilled with this much intelligence is a rare and happy sight.â€ â€”The New York Times

â€œGolden Hill possesses a fluency and immediacy, a feast of the sensesâ€¦I love this book.â€ â€”The Washington Post

The spectacular first novel from acclaimed nonfiction author Francis Spufford follows the adventures of a mysterious young man in mid-eighteenth century Manhattan, thirty years before the American Revolution.

New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, 1746. One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat arrives at a countinghouse door on Golden Hill Street: this is Mr. Smith, amiable, charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion shimmering. For in his pocket, he has what seems to be an order for a thousand pounds, a huge sum, and he wonâ€™t explain why, or where he comes from, or what he is planning to do in the colonies that requires so much money. Should the New York merchants trust him? Should they risk their credit and refuse to pay? Should they befriend him, seduce him, arrest him; maybe even kill him?

Rich in language and historical perception, yet compulsively readable, Golden Hill is â€œa remarkable achievementâ€”remarkable, especially, in its intelligent re-creation of the early years of what was to become Americaâ€™s greatest cityâ€ (The Wall Street Journal). Spufford paints an irresistible picture of a New York provokingly different from its later metropolitan self, but already entirely a place where a young man with a fast tongue can invent himself afresh, fall in loveâ€”and find a world of trouble. Golden Hill is â€œimmensely pleasurableâ€¦Read it for Spuffordâ€™s brilliant storytelling, pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, and gift for re-creating a vanished timeâ€ (New York Newsday).
Country USA
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-06-27
UnitCount 1
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9781501163876

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-06-27
UnitCount	1
Format	Kindle eBook
EANs	9781501163876

Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York

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