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An engrossing, epic American drama told from four distinct perspectives, spanning the first major wave of Irish immigration to New York through the end of the Civil War. Four unique voices; two parallel love stories; one sweeping novel rich in the history of nineteenth-century America.... read more
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“Their faces are gaunt, their eyes haunted, just like the folks back in the Old Country, yet there's the same determination in their gaze, clinging to freedom the way the skin-draped skeletons back in Ireland clung to life itself.”
Ethan -
“You are the sun to me after a night three thousand days long”
Micah
Setting & Locations edit
- Richmond
- New York
- America
- Virginia
- Dunmore
- Brooklyn
- South Carolina
- Newry
- Washington
- Ireland
- Abuela
- Wall Street
- Justinia
- Old Country
- Antietam
- Pennsylvania
- Charleston
- Malvern Hill
- Charlottesville
- Jordan
- Cooperstown
- Feeny
- Canada
- Raleigh
- Tammany
- City Hall
- Paris
- Fredericksburg
- Bonjour
- Bartolome
- Savannah
- Africa
- East River
- Maryland
- Reny
- Big House
Authors & Contributors edit
- Peter Troy (Author)
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Publication Date: 2012
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- Dewey: 813.6
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