| Dance Hall: A Novel of Sing Sing Contributor(s): Pietrusza, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1440494053 ISBN-13: 9781440494055 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $11.35 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2014 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.25" W x 8" (0.76 lbs) 302 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: INSPIRED BY TRUE STORIES OF DEPRESSION-ERA SING SING A Brooklyn stickup artist, his taxi-dancing wife, a murderous newspaperman, a risk-taking warden, and a wife with a dark past converge in 1930s Sing Sing heading toward death, redemption-and Ebbets Field. "DANCE HALL: A NOVEL OF SING SING" unveils a grand and riveting tale of a violent and desperate past, unforgettably narrated in a gripping, often wry, fashion-recorded in tears and punctuated in-rarely innocent-blood. "Dance Hall" flawlessly transports readers to a seedy, volatile 1930s underworld where love and honor and redemption jostle for mere survival with greed and lust and betrayal. "Dance Hall" reveals the story of a Brooklyn stickup artist, his taxi-dancing Filipina spouse, a murderous newspaperman, a risk-taking warden, and a wife with a dark past converging in Sing Sing, destined for love, death, forgiveness, redemption-and Ebbets Field. "Dance Hall" reveals a page-turning web of perfectly-balanced back stories: of a young parish priest gone wrong and then right again, of a brutal Bowery killer with escape on his mind, a con man with the vestige of a conscience, a thuggish Garment District goon with a devout sister, a tell-all Broadway gossip columnist who can make or break you, a rat of an accomplice, a once-disgraced private detective who now surprisingly elevates a principle above a paycheck. Read "Dance Hall" and you live and breathe life inside cold and desperate prison halls and cells; sweaty and often violent Brooklyn dime-a-dance dance halls; threadbare tenements, back-alley speakeasies where anything you wanted badly enough was for sale; the offices of the rich and powerful and still conflicted; and of a waiting area for Sing Sing's "Death Row" called "The Dance Hall"-all while returning you to Depression days when hope reigned supreme. Because hope was all you had. |