"In post-Civil War New York, an investor mounts an operation to free a group of children held as slaves in Florida. The investor is William Bartholomew who served in the Union army as a sniper and he does it at the behest of his Creole girlfriend. By the author of The Mutual Friend."
"In post-Civil War New York, an investor mounts an operation to free a group of children held as slaves in Florida. The investor is William Bartholomew who served in the Union army as a sniper and he does it at the behest of his Creole girlfriend."@en
"Een scherpschutter komt geestelijk en lichamelijk verminkt uit de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog en probeert aan de zelfkant van het New York van rond 1875 de draad van zijn leven weer op te pakken."
"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."@en