A Times Book of the Month for readers of Golden Hill and Cloud Atlas. It is 1800, and the future of Chicago hangs in the balance, to be decided on the outcome of a game of chess. Win or lose, the result will reverberate through the next 100 years of history, and the players? lives, the lives of their descendants, and the city itself will never be the same again ?
| Autor: | Carr Jonathan |
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| ISBN: | 9781912854882 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Scribe |
| Veröffentlicht: | 11.03.2021 |
| Untertitel: | a novel |
| Schlagworte: | 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 FICTION / African American / General FICTION / Biographical FICTION / Cultural Heritage FICTION / General FICTION / Historical / General FICTION / Native American & Aboriginal FICTION / Sagas Generational sagas Illinois Modern & contemporary fiction Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) North America North America (USA & Canada) Sagas c 1800 to c 1900 |
In between periods spent living in the UK, Kenya, Gambia, Greece, and Louisiana, USA, Jonathan Carr first visited Chicago in 1983. A graduate of Cambridge University, he has worked as a travel correspondent, a book reviewer, and a teacher of English. He holds a PhD from Bath Spa University in Creative Writing. Make Me A City is his first novel.