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Imprint: Viking
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Published: 18/02/2021
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ISBN: 9780241374573
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Length: 352 Pages
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Dimensions: 222mm x 33mm x 144mm
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Weight: 468g
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RRP: £16.99
'A beautiful, lyric hymn to the power of social unrest in American history. Jess Walter is a national treasure' Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See
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It is 1909 in Spokane, Washington. The Dolan brothers are living by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his dashing older brother Gig dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. When Rye finds himself drawn to suffragette Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, her passion sweeps him into the world of protest and dirty business. But a storm is coming, threatening to overwhelm them all . . .
The Cold Millions is an intimate story of brotherhood, love, sacrifice and betrayal set against the panoramic backdrop of an early 20th century America. Jess Walter offers a stunning, kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation grappling with the chasm between rich and poor, dreams and reality, in a sensational tale that resonates powerfully with our own time.
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'A work of irresistible characters, harrowing adventures and rip-roaring fun . . . One of the most captivating novels of the year' Washington Post
'Stunning' San Francisco Chronicle
'Warm and deeply humane, this transporting novel is a staggering achievement from a landmark writer' Esquire
'A vivid, propulsive, historical novel with a politically explosive backdrop that reverberates through our own' USA Today
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Imprint: Viking
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Published: 18/02/2021
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ISBN: 9780241374573
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Length: 352 Pages
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Dimensions: 222mm x 33mm x 144mm
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Weight: 468g
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RRP: £16.99
Reviews
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A riotous, propulsive adventure story, packed with captivating characters, whose lives are played out in politically explosive times.
Daily Mail
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A brilliantly multifaceted panorama of early 20th-century America...Arguably underappreciated in this country, Walter is a writer whose work deserves a wide readership.
Sunday Times
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A beautiful, lyric hymn to the power of social unrest in American history. It's funny and harrowing, sweet and violent, innocent and experienced; it walks a dozen tightropes.
Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See
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Expansive, beguiling . . . A thrilling yarn that simultaneously underscores the cost of progress and celebrates the American spirit
O Magazine
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A work of irresistible characters, harrowing adventures and rip-roaring fun ... bursting with a dazzling range of outrageous characters. One of the most captivating novels of the year
Washington Post
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Reminiscent of the stylistic tricks of F Scott Fitzgerald...With its rebellion against inequality and debates about capitalism, there are clear echoes from 1909 to the US today. Incitement to riot, dreadfully topical since the assault on the Capitol last month, also gets a look in. But The Cold Millions offers more: a study of individuals living, willingly or unwillingly, through tumult.
FT
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Walter is a class act...the fierce struggle for free speech and workers' rights is genuinely stirring.
Max Davidson, Mail on Sunday
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It's a tremendous work, a vivid, propulsive, historical novel with a politically explosive backdrop that reverberates through our own
USA Today
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Jess Walter is a superb storyteller. As polished and hard as a diamond, The Cold Millions reminds us of America's tempestuous past and suggests that all this is anything but past
Boston Globe
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Walter marshals a motley, fascinating cast of characters so finely drawn that they lift from the page. I haven't encountered a more satisfying and moving novel about the struggle for workers' rights in America
San Francisco Chronicle
