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The night inspector [electronic resource] : a novel / Frederick Busch.
An immensely powerful story which follows the extraordinary life of William Bartholomew. A maimed veteran of the Civil War, William Bartholomew returns from the battlefields to New York City, bent on reversing his fortunes. It is there he meets Jessie, a Creole prostitute who engages him in a venture that has its origins in the complexities and despair of the conflict he has left behind. He also befriends a deputy inspector of customs named Herman Melville who, largely forgotten as a writer, is condemned to live in the wake of his vanished literary success and in the turmoil of his fractured family. William mounts an operation to free a group of children held as slaves in Florida.
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- ISBN: 9780609607688 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
- ISBN: 0609607685 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
- Physical Description: 278 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Harmony Books, c1999.
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| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : Crown Publishing Group, 1999. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1015 KB). |
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| Genre: | Historical fiction. Electronic books. |
