This Side of Brightness

Paperback (07 Dec 1998)

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Publisher's Synopsis

On a bitter winter's day in 1916, deep below the streets of New York, a group of men is working in one of the huge pressurized tunnels that will make up the subway system. Suddenly, a tiny hole appears in the roof of the tunnel and the air rushes in, sucking the men up through the bed of the Hudson, to be suspended on a spume of water high above the river. Almost 90 years later, Treefrog, a homeless man, stumbles through the same corridor, under the twirling flakes of snow, to his makeshift home under the city.

A love story in three generations, this is also about hope and despair and survival.

Book information

ISBN: 9780753804766
Publisher: Orion
Imprint: Phoenix
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.914
DEWEY edition: 21
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 210g
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 19mm