Golden Hill by Francis Spufford

Golden Hill by Francis Spufford

A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Fiction Book of 2017 * A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * A Seattle Times Favorite Book of 2017 * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year * A Library Journal Top Historical Fiction Book of the Year * Winner of the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, and the Desmond Elliott Prize

Gorgeously crafted...Spufford's sprawling recreation here is pitch perfect. --Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air

A fast-paced romp that keeps its eyes on the moral conundrums of America. --The New Yorker

Delirious storytelling backfilled with this much intelligence is a rare and happy sight. --The New York Times

Golden Hill possesses a fluency and immediacy, a feast of the senses...I love this book. --The Washington Post

The spectacular first novel from acclaimed nonfiction author Francis Spufford follows the adventures of a mysterious young man in mid-eighteenth century Manhattan, thirty years before the American Revolution.

New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, 1746. One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat arrives at a countinghouse door on Golden Hill Street: this is Mr. Smith, amiable, charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion shimmering. For in his pocket, he has what seems to be an order for a thousand pounds, a huge sum, and he won't explain why, or where he comes from, or what he is planning to do in the colonies that requires so much money. Should the New York merchants trust him? Should they risk their credit and refuse to pay? Should they befriend him, seduce him, arrest him; maybe even kill him?

Rich in language and historical perception, yet compulsively readable, Golden Hill is a story taut with twists and turns that keeps you gripped until its tour-de-force conclusion (The Times, London). Spufford paints an irresistible picture of a New York provokingly different from its later metropolitan self but already entirely a place where a young man with a fast tongue can invent himself afresh, fall in love--and find a world of trouble.

I May Be Some Time (Picador) is also written by Francis Spufford. He was nominated Young Writer of the Year by the Sunday Times (London) and received the Somerset Maugham and Writers' Guild Awards in 1997. He is based in London.

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ISBN 13	9781501163876
ISBN 10	1501163876
Title	Golden Hill
Author	Francis Spufford
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Scribner Book Company
Year published	2017-06-27
Number of pages	320
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