North River

North River

Author: Pete Hamill
Category: General
ISBN: 9780316007993
Format : Paperback
Publisher : Back Bay Books

  

The year is 1934 and New York City is locked in the icy grip of the great depression. Amid the hunger and suffering, Dr. James Delaney tends to the needy, mobsters and housewives alike. However, Delaney himself is suffering from the heartache of his wife`s abandoning him and from the horrors he witnessed during the Great War. When his daughter leaves her two-year-old son on his doorstep, Delaney recruits Rose, a Sicilian maid, to help raise the child. Pete Hamill`s atmospheric and lovely novel recreates a period of terrible hardship and shows how human decency survives despite the brutality.