5/21/2023 0 Comments The waterworks doctorow![]() ![]() (For background see Luc Sante's Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York and Herbert Asbury's The Gangs of New York.) U.S. It is in fact a horribly corrupt and violent town. Martin is editor/narrator McIlvaine's best writer and when he disappears McIlvaine goes looking for him. ![]() He has twice recently seen his father, dead these last two years, being driven through town in a sepulchrally white omnibus. Martin believes, and others agree, that he may be losing his mind. This was before the city had grown much above present-day 72nd Street. A retired New York City newspaper editor writing after the turn of the century recounts the tale of what happened when his talented freelance writer, Martin Pemberton, went missing in the 1871. A moody, elegant thriller, beautifully paced. ![]()
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