- Fiction, Organized crime, Organized crime in fiction, Russian American criminals in fiction
It's three thousand miles from the green fields of glory, where Henry "call me Hank" Thompson once played California baseball, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the tenements are old, the rents are high, and the drunks are dirty.
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Relentless, classical in form, contemporary and unpretentious.
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Charlie Huston
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books, Random House Publishing Group
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345478290
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