![]() Hunted by the police and another local criminal, the mysterious Undertoe, Georg makes a Faustian pact with Johnny that links their destinies forever. Johnny decides to help Georg in exchange for the use of the immigrant's supposed criminal expertise. Almost comically, she mistakes Georg for a master criminal and duly tells her gang leader about him.īeatrice's sociopathic boss is Dandy Johnny, the nominal leader of the Whyos (quite unbeknownst to the rest of the gang, Johnny's mother is the real brains behind the gang's success). He is first noticed by Beatrice O'Gamhna, a wild, Dickensian street urchin who is no better than she has to be, and often worse. Barnum's famous show, Georg (one of just several names he goes by in the book) begins a steep descent into the far-reaching New York underworld. ![]() Set in the turbulent years following the Civil War, this ambitious historical novel tells the story of a young German immigrant with a checkered past and the streetwise Irish girl with whom he falls in love. Metropolis is a paean to the city of New York, a bygone era and the perseverance of the human spirit. ![]() ![]() Elizabeth Gaffney, a contributing editor to The Paris Review, has written an immigrant's song of a first novel. ![]()
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