Download The Cold Millions PDF

2020
Title The Cold Millions
Authors
Genres Contemporary Fiction Political & Legal Westerns
Publisher Harper
ISBN 9780062868084
A Most Anticipated Book by: The New York Times Book Review * Wall Street Journal * Time * Esquire * The Millions * Vogue * People * New York Post * USA Today * Medium * The Philadelphia Inquirer * NewsdayFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins comes another "literary miracle" (NPR)--a propulsive, richly entertaining novel about two brothers swept up in the turbulent class warfare of the early twentieth century.An intimate story of brotherhood, love, sacrifice, and betrayal set against the panoramic backdrop of an early twentieth-century America that eerily echoes our own time, The Cold Millions offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation grappling with the chasm between rich and poor, between harsh realities and simple dreams. The Dolans live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his older brother, Gig, dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. Enter Ursula the Great, a vaudeville singer who performs with a live cougar and introduces the brothers to a far more dangerous creature: a mining magnate determined to keep his wealth and his hold on Ursula.Dubious of Gig's idealism, Rye finds himself drawn to a fearless nineteen-year-old activist and feminist named Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. But a storm is coming, threatening to overwhelm them all, and Rye will be forced to decide where he stands. Is it enough to win the occasional battle, even if you cannot win the war? Featuring an unforgettable cast of cops and tramps, suffragists and socialists, madams and murderers, The Cold Millions is a tour de force from a "writer who has planted himself firmly in the first rank of American authors" (Boston Globe).
More Books You May Like
Summerwater by Sarah Moss
Summerwater by Sarah Moss
Sarah Moss

On the longest day of the summer, twelve people sit cooped up with their families in a faded Scottish cabin park. The en...

Sexy But Psycho by Jessica Taylor
Sexy But Psycho by Jessica Taylor
Dr Jessica Taylor

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAngry, opinionated, mouthy, aggressive, hysterical, mad, disordered, crazy, psycho, delusiona...

Fantastic Beasts: the Crimes of Grindelwald
Fantastic Beasts: the Crimes of Grindelwald
J. K. Rowling

The Wizarding World journey continues . . . The powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was captured in New York with t...

The Denial of Death
The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilli...

Moab is My Washpot
Moab is My Washpot
Stephen Fry

Moab is My Washpotis in turns funny, shocking, tender, delicious, sad, lyrical, bruisingly frank and addictively readabl...