The book is set in a post-Civil War New York City of the 1870s with maimed veterans begging in the streets, the Tweed Ring & conspicuous wealth glittering among mass misery. Young Martin Pemberton, a newspaper freelancer, encounters an old man who he recognizes as his supposedly dead & buried father. While searching for his father he disappears. His editor pursues the truth & in the process the author reveals New York City at a time of great energy & creativity. Doctorow states: "The soul of the city was always my subject and it was a roiling soul, twisting and turning over on itself and opening out again like a blown cloud."
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