Winning Pool

Quinn, Peter

Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)

On the eve of the Union army's military draft, an opportunistic Irish-American hustler, a scheming Yankee stockbroker, a beautiful mulatto musical comedy star, and her minstrel lover come together during the Draft Riots. Reprint.

Banished Children of Eve, A Novel of Civil War New York

Literature & Fiction

United States

Penguin

Set in the heart of urban America in 1963 New York, before and during the draft riots that ripped the city apart, this book follows the lives of an Irish American worker and drinker, a Yankee stockbroker, a beautiful musical comedy star and her lover, and various other characters of the period.

Banished Children of Eve

Contemporary

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

A likable Irish-American hustler, a Yankee stockbroker, a beautiful mulatto musical comedy star, and her white minstrel lover experience life in New York City during the Civil War Draft Riots. TV tie-in. 50,000 first printing.

Banished Children of Eve: A Novel of Civil War New York

Viking Adult

Judge Joe Crater's disappearance in 1930 spawned countless conspiracy theories and captured the imagination of a nation caught in the grip of The Depression. Fifteen years later, Fintan Dunne, the detective encountered in Quinn's novel Hour of the Cat, recently retired and bored, answers a summons to New York where he is asked to solve the old case for a newspaper magnate interested in making a profit. Dunne confronts haphazard investigating, aggrieved participants and a grieving spouse as he travels from New York to Los Angeles and Havana, untangling decades-old clues in an attempt to solve the mystery still baffling America. Peter Quinn once again has written a compelling blend of history and fiction that is simply unputdownable.

The Man Who Never Returned

Overlook Duckworth+

Customer: "Soccer will never take off in America; it's just not going to happen!" Barber: "I heard a quote in a movie "Americans will never embrace soccer!"" Customer: "Who said that?" Barber: "Homer Simpson in the Simpsons Movie!" Female Barber: (approaching a customer in the waiting area) "you know the way you always give me a fiver tip?" Customer: (A little surprised) "Yea?" Female Barber: "Well would there be any chance I could get an advance, it's just one of the girls is going out for our sandwiches and I have no money!" Customer: "I'm a transparent wall maintenance engineer." Barber: "What is that?" Customer: "I clean the windows at the airport"

Short Back and Sides: Tales from an Irish Barber Shop

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

GILL MACMILLAN

Hour of the Cat

Blackstone Pub

Blackstone Audiobooks

Business & Money

Review\nVividly imagined, scrupulously researched, and almost disorienting in its authenticity . . . A historical classic . . . Nothing short of splendid. ― The Philadelphia Inquirer\nPeter Quinn’s extraordinarily fine and ingenious novel, Banished Children of Eve, shows how much we are made of history . . . Unflinching in its depiction of prejudice and, for that matter, of grace, Quinn deftly weaves the lives of his characters into an intricate web of past and present, of association and moral involvement, until I, at least, had a sense not only of this terrible time but of history itself at the fundamental level, of the individual actions that make up its fabric. ― The Boston Sunday Globe\nHistorical fiction as well made and whole as this is not common . . . Convincing and intriguing . . . Hardly a page of this book is without some revelation. ― The New York Times Book Review\nOne of the very, very best of modern historical novels. -- Thomas Flanagan\nNamed one of the top twenty books every Irish American should read by Irish Central\nThe Civil War has just entered its third bloody year, and the North is about to impose its first military draft, a decision that will spark the most devastating and destructive urban riot in American history. Banished Children of Eve traces that event as its tentacles grip New York City. The cast is drawn from every stratum: a likeable and laconic Irish-American hustler, an ambitious and larcenous Yankee stockbroker, an immigrant serving girl, a beautiful and mysterious mulatto actress and her white minstrel lover as well as a cluster of real-life characters, including scheming, ever-pompous General George McClellan; fiery, fierce Archbishop “Dagger John” Hughes; and fast-declining musical genius Stephen Foster. The fates of these characters coalesce in the cataclysm of the Draft Riots, as a pivotal period in the history of New York and the nation is painfully, vividly, magically bought to life.

Banished Children of Eve: A Novel of Civil War New York (New York ReLit)

New York ReLit

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