The Killers: A Narrative of Real Life in Philadelphia - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:George Lippard, Matt Cohen (Editor), Edlie L. Wong (Editor)Publish date:11/4/2016Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9780812223743ISBN-10:812223748UPC:9780812223743Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.20 x 5.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC9D0EPHVE
The Killers: A Narrative of Real Life in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, the 1840s: a corrupt banker disowns his dissolute son, who then reappears as a hardened smuggler in the contraband slave trade. Another son, hidden from his father since birth and condemned as a former felon, falls in with a ferocious street gang led by his elder brother and his revenge-hungry comrade from Cuba. His adopted sister, a beautiful actress, is kidnapped, and her...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9780812223743ISBN-10:812223748UPC:9780812223743Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.20 x 5.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC9D0EPHVE
Matt Cohen is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and author of The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England. Edlie L. Wong is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, and author of Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel.
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