Dreams Bigger Than the Night

A Novel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Set during the Great Depression, when fascism was looking increasingly attractive to many, Paul M. Levitt’s latest novel surrounds attempts to boycott the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the counterforces at work: the American Nazi Party, Avery Brundage, a German assassin, and those American athletes—eighteen of whom were the first black athletes hoping to compete—wishing to show the world their superb talents. When a young woman in the employ of Abner “Longie” Zwillman, the Don of New Jersey, goes missing, Jay Klug and his friend T-Bone Searle try to find her before she falls victim to a brutal Nazi killer. Their journey leads them to the man who reputedly killed the famous gangster Arnold Rothstein (the Big Bankroll), to Jean Harlow, Dreamland, Cape May, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Amarillo, and even Los Angeles.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-08-03
Mått162 x 236 x 25 mm
Vikt549 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor270
FörlagTaylor Trade Publishing
ISBN9781630760786

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What a startling novel! Few writers can bring off a book like this—and with such a distinct voice. Facing one of the most difficult challenges that novelists can set themselves, drawing on real events and characters from life, Paul Levitt weaves an enthralling page-turner that manages to contain huge metaphor and elegant ideas. Confirming our suspicions about villains, understanding lesser folk who fight the odds, Dreams Bigger Than the Night becomes, within the first pages, writing bigger than the spirit, and in its relentless but always perceptive drive forward, answers the question: ‘is plot character or is character plot?’ This is just excellent writing, where we ‘see’ everybody and turn with every twist.