Round the Block

Round the Block
Authors
John Bell Bouton
Publisher
Otbebookpublishing
Tags
city and town life -- fiction , male friendship -- fiction
ISBN
9783962722081
Date
2017-12-28
Size
0.80 MB
Lang
en
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In Round the Block (1864), John Bell Bouton, stirs together comedy and pathos to explore the schemes and dreams of the average and extraordinary people inhabiting and intermingling on a single New York City block. In the path of the novel's circumambulation lie mystery, romance, and a murder trial, as love-matches and fortunes are made and lost through invention, speculation, and flimflam - plenty of flimflam. This richly-charactered novel, told with Dickensian brio, offers a fascinating slice of life, vivid in detail, of the bustling big-city habits and mores of America shortly before the Civil War. (Introduction by Grant Hurlock)(