Make Me A City : a novel of Chicago Hardback
by Jonathan Carr
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How does a place become a city? Whose stories will survive and whose will be lost? How do you know if you truly belong?It is 1800. On desolate, marshy ground between Lake Michigan and the Illinois River, a man builds a house and a city is born …This masterful debut novel spans Chicago’s tumultuous first century, showing how a city is made: by a succession of vivid, sometimes villainous individuals and their cumulative invention, energy, and vision. We meet the city’s unacknowledged founder, a descendant of colonisers and slaves; witness the dispersal of the indigenous Native Americans; hear stories of an entrepreneur, an engineer, a courageous female reporter, and a corrupt alderman; and track the lives of immigrants from all over the world, as they struggle for acceptance in a country they have built. Chicago, its inhabitants and its history are brought to dazzling, colourful life in this epic tale that speaks of not just one city but America as a whole, and of how people come to find their place in the world.
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- Pages:512 pages
- Publisher:Scribe Publications
- Publication Date:14/03/2019
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- ISBN:9781911617150
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:512 pages
- Publisher:Scribe Publications
- Publication Date:14/03/2019
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- ISBN:9781911617150