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Cargando... Button Man (2018)por Andrew Gross
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  Castlelass | Oct 30, 2022 |   Recommend to people who enjoy NYC history and the story of the underdog who makes good. (  ) maitrigita | Oct 1, 2022 | This background explains how desperately immigrants needed jobs, how hard they worked from morning to night, for pennies in 'sweat shops', in shoddy conditions. Children often had to quit school to work as well because families needed any extra money they could get for food and rent. Morris Rabishevsky was lucky to get a job in Manny Gutman's clothing factory. His ambition and tenacity pay off as he learns every job at the factory, and reaches for the top, eventually starting his own company. Older brother Sol drops out of accounting school and joins Morris. But its tough going because there is so much competition. And companies now are coerced into paying mobsters to provide 'insurance' to employees. Owners who don't comply face threats and violence. When they do agree they end up losing money, and going out of business. Morris and Sol choose not to bow to the dangerous 'bullies' but they end up losing much of what they worked for. Morris soon agrees to assist his friend Irv help Thomas Dewey prosecute New York's crime bosses who have a stranglehold on New York. Very good read. Bookish59 | Aug 3, 2022 |  ) lewilliams | Sep 14, 2020 | Gross does a great job of developing the characters, showing the hard choice they had to make in life, family ties, & how parents' attitude toward Harry had a profound effect on his life. ( ) juniperSun | Aug 11, 2020 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Fiction.
Mystery.
Thriller.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: "As usual, narrator Edoardo Ballerini's narration is eminently listenable...He captures the rich details of the era while engaging listeners with the story's relatable family dynamics." AudioFile Magazine Following up The One Man and The Saboteur, Andrew Gross's next historical thriller audiobook brings to life the dramatic birth of organized crime in 1930s New York City from the tale of one family. After a string of New York Times bestselling suburban thrillers, Andrew Gross has reinvented himself as a writer of historical thrillers. In his latest audiobook, Button Man, he delivers a stirring story of a Jewish family brought together in the dawn of the women's garment business and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in New York City in the 1930s. Morris, Sol, and Harry Rabishevsky grew up poor and rough in a tiny flat on the Lower East Side, until the death of their father thrust them into having to fend for themselves and support their large family. Morris, the youngest, dropped out of school at twelve years old and apprenticed himself to a garment cutter in a clothing factory; Sol headed to accounting school; but Harry, scarred by a family tragedy, fell in with a gang of thugs as a teenager. Morris steadily climbs through the ranks at the factory until at twenty-one he finally goes out on his own, convincing Sol to come work with him. But Harry can't be lured away from the glamour, the power, and the money that come from his association with Louis Buchalter, whom Morris has battled with since his youth and who has risen to become the most ruthless mobster in New York. And when Buchalter sets his sights on the unions that staff the garment makers' factories, a fatal showdown is inevitable, pitting brother against brother. This new audiobook is equal parts historical thriller, rich with the detail of a vibrant New York City in the 1920s and 1930s, and family saga, based on Andrew Gross's own family story and on the history of the era, complete with appearances by real-life characters like mobsters Louis Lepke and Dutch Schultz and special prosecutor Thomas Dewey, and cements Gross's reputation as today's most atmospheric and original historical thriller writer. "Button Man is a compelling, fast paced historical thriller that paints a rich portrait of the rise of organized crime in 1930's America. Fans of Boardwalk Empire and Dennis Lehane will love it." - Kristin Hannah, New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I have found in recent years that I do not particularly care for contemporary psychological thrillers, so when “thriller” was selected as the category for this month’s book, I decided to go with historical fiction. On the plus side, the story includes a good amount of 1920’s to 1930’s history of the garment district in New York and the setting feels realistic. On the minus side, the writing is full of clichés, the dialogue is clunky, and the featured brothers come across as too good to be true (possibly a side-effect of basing the book on the author’s real family members). Overall, I found it entertaining, but I doubt it will remain with me over time.
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