Kings of Broken Things
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (892 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072NB8Z9S |
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| Number of Pages | : | 265 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Utterly Fascinating!" according to A. Swain. I admit at first I wasn't sure what to think about this novel, wasn't sure if I would like it and whether or not I would finish it. I'm SO GLAD I didn't give up on it because it gets better and better with each new vignette, and held me fast right up through the epilogue. For my family, friends and others who have lived in Omaha for any length of time - or still do, I highly recommend this story of historical fiction. It doesn't paint a pretty . "A good story in the 1918 to 1919 years" according to BJD. A good story in the 1918 to 1919 years. My Dad was born in 1916 so it was interesting to me and my imagination to put his family in that era.He was on a farm in ND so their story would be different than a bigger city. Strange to hear of the 1919 riots and compare the way people behave now!. "A bit boring" according to me. I never didn't want to finish it but it was very easy to walk away from. Unlike so many books where you just can't wait to know what happens next, I didn't really care. I never felt attached to the characters and it never made a differance to me what happened next.
Punctuated by an unspeakable act of mob violence, the fates of Karel, Jake, and Evie will become inexorably entangled with the schemes of a ruthless political boss whose will to power knows no bounds. Written in the tradition of Don DeLillo and Colum McCann, with a great debt to Ralph Ellison, Theodore Wheeler's debut novel Kings of Broken Things is a panoramic view of a city on the brink of implosion during the course of this summer of strife.. As wounded soldiers return from the front and black migrant workers move north in search of economic opportunity, the immigrant wards of Omaha become a tinderbox of racial resentment stoked by unscrupulous politicians. With characters depicted in precise detail and wide panorama - a kept-woman's parlor, a contentious interracial baseball game on the Fourth of July, and the tragic true events of the Omaha Race Riot of 1919 - Kings of Broken Things reveals the folly of human nature in an era of astonishing ambiti