An exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, about one man’s rise to fame and fortune, and his mysterious murder—“engrossing” ( Wall Street Journal ), “immersive” ( The New Yorker ), and “seriously entertaining” ( The Sunday Times, London). Andrew Haswell Green is dead, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing—on Park Avenue in broad daylight, on Friday the thirteenth—shook the city. Born to a struggling farmer, Green was a self-made man without whom there would be no Central Park, no Metropolitan Museum of Art, no Museum of Natural History, no New York Public Library. But Green had a secret, a life locked within him that now, in the hour of his death, may finally break free. A work of tremendous depth and piercing emotion, The Great Mistake is the story of a city transformed, a murder that made a private man infamous, and a portrait of a singular individual who found the world closed off to him—yet enlarged it.
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The Great Mistake: A novel
By: Jonathan Lee
ISBN-10: 0525658491
ISBN-13 : 978-0525658498
Publisher : Knopf; First Edition, 2nd printing (June 15, 2021)
Language : English
Hardcover: 304 pages
Reading Age : None
Dimensions : 6 x 1.1 x 9.54 inches
Item Weight : 1.2 pounds
$16.98 $13.58
SKU9780525658498
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