by Kevin Baker · HarperCollins · tapa dura · ISBN 9780060195823
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«Paradise Alley» is the historical novel by Kevin Baker, published by HarperCollins in hardback (688 pages, in English).
In the midst of the American Civil War, the announcement of the military draft in New York ignites the anger of Irish immigrants, who see the rich buying their exemption; what starts with broken bottles becomes five days of riots. In the port district of Paradise Alley, three women, Deirdre, Ruth and Maddy, await the storm.
The first English edition was published on October 1, 2002.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the American Civil War, Irish immigration, and New York's social unrest.
