By the rivers of Brooklyn : a novel / Trudy J. Morgan-Cole.
By the rivers of Brooklyn : a novel / Trudy J. Morgan-Cole.
By
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Morgan-Cole, Trudy J., 1965-
Publication Date
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2009
Publication Information
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St. John's, N.L.: Breakwater Books/Jesperson Publishing,
Physical Description
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283 p.
Subject Term
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Domestic fiction.
Immigrants -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
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Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.
New York -- Fiction.
Genre
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Historical fiction.
Summary
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A novel about three generations of women from St. John’s, Newfoundland. In 1924, Rose Evans and Ethel Moores move to Brooklyn, New York, as so many young Newfoundlanders of their generation did. There they join Rose’s brothers, Jim and Bert, who are steelworkers on the skyscrapers of Manhattan. Ethel is engaged to Bert, but when tragedy strikes, her life takes an unexpected turn. Meanwhile, Rose longs for excitement and adventure in New York, while back in St. John’s her sister Annie, the family’s “home girl,” looks after her aging parents and provides the family with its anchor and centre. As the women of the Evans family live, love, hope, hurt and betray, their story sprawls across three countries and three generations, always haunted by the home they’ve left behind.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9781550812626
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