Brookland
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Brookland

A Novel

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Brookland

A Novel

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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
A Los Angeles Times Book Review Favorite Book of the Year Since her girlhood, Prudence Winship has gazed across the tidal straits from her home in Brooklyn to the city of Manhattan and yearned to bridge the distance. Now, established as the owner of the enormously successful gin distillery she inherited from her father, she can begin to realize her dream.Set in eighteenth-century Brooklyn, this is the story of a determined and intelligent woman who is consumed by a vision of a bridge: a gargantuan construction of timber and masonry she devises to cross the East River in a single, magnificent span. With the help of the local surveyor, Benjamin Horsfield, and her sisters—the high-spirited, obstreperous Tem, who works with her in the distillery, and the silent, uncanny Pearl—she fires the imaginations of the people of Brooklyn and New York by promising them a bridge that will meet their most pressing practical needs while being one of the most ambitious public works ever attempted. Prue's own life and the life of the bridge become inextricably bound together as the costs of the bridge, both financial and human, rise beyond her direst expectations. Brookland confirms Emily Barton's reputation as one of the finest writers of her generation, whose work is "blessedly post-ironic, engaging and heartfelt" (Thomas Pynchon).

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year
2006
ISBN
9781429982917
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Historical Fiction
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Halftitle
  6. One: IHPETONGA
  7. Two: THE ICE BRIDGE OF 1782
  8. Three: THE DISTILLERY
  9. Four: PEARL’S SIN
  10. Five: JOHANNA
  11. Six: MR. SEVERN’S VISIT
  12. Seven: ROXANA
  13. Eight: WINSHIP DAUGHTERS GIN
  14. Nine: THE DREAM
  15. Ten: NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
  16. Eleven: BENJAMIN’S RETURN
  17. Twelve: PEARL’S ELEVATION
  18. Thirteen: A WORKABLE PLAN
  19. Fourteen: THE PETITION
  20. Fifteen: HENRY HUDSON'S RIVER
  21. Sixteen: THE GENTLEMEN OF ALBANY
  22. Seventeen: THE WEDDING
  23. Eighteen: THE SECOND MODEL
  24. Nineteen: A GREATER DISAPPOINTMENT
  25. Twenty: THE TRUE BRIDGE’S BEGINNING
  26. Twenty-one: A LONG WINTER
  27. Twenty-two: THE SECOND SEASON
  28. Twenty-three: THE MORTGAGE
  29. Twenty-four: MR. SEVERN’S QUESTION
  30. Twenty-five: THE CONFLAGRATION
  31. Twenty-six: THE MEASURE OF A MAN
  32. Acknowledgments