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Sep 05, John Gill rated it liked it. All is in transition. But for his shell-shocked younger brother, Michael, a former seminarian, the rupture in his self-conception is far more violent. Michael has been rendered deaf and dumb by the same accidental explosion that left several IRA bomb makers dead and their money up for grabs.
As Francis and Michael take up residence in the Plaza Hotel and reunite with their estranged brother, Martin, a jazz musician, the brothers encounter a range of other characters who are also confronting twinned opposites of themselves. Lilly Bloch, a Jewish street photographer, is torn between pursuing her art as a single woman in America and returning to Nazi-occupied Prague, where her lover awaits her.
Tom Cronin, a peaceable upstate farmer, finds himself slipping back into his old role as a hit man for one last job: extinguishing Francis Dempsey. Mathews is an able prose stylist, and breathing life into so many diverse characters is no mean feat. But the book, like the men and women who populate its pages, is riven by conflicting identities.
Indeed, Mathews mentions the movies repeatedly, which shakes the reader out of whatever realism has been generated and casts a spotlight on the constructedness of his narrative.
Doctorow, the colossus of New York historical fiction. But the two books approach Gotham in different ways.
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Doctorow, a Bronx native, wrote a tender, first-person story that reads as deeply felt memoir. Still, Mathews has a flair for bringing street scenes to life, and his hopscotching narrative — from a Harlem jazz joint to a Bowery art studio to a Fifth Avenue palace — makes for an enjoyable tour of a vanished city. I received this from netgalley. Oh, I really wanted to like this book. It has all the different facets of historical fiction that I adore. But reading it was like slogging through knee deep cement. The story was making no progress and I couldn't grasp onto any interest in the characters.
No rating, DNF. View all 4 comments. Oct 02, Ethel Rohan rated it liked it. As a fellow author, it pains me to give The World of Tomorrow only 3 stars. It is clearly a labor of love and I respect and admire the enormous effort and skill that went into its writing--the prose, vivid details and sense of place are all excellent. However, the novel needed a stringent edit. Sprawling is the word that repeated in my mind as I read. It is much too dense with extraneous details, telling, and, worse, characters.
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Ultimately, the lack of focus, nuance and depth of characterization As a fellow author, it pains me to give The World of Tomorrow only 3 stars. Ultimately, the lack of focus, nuance and depth of characterization shut me out of this story. Again, Mathews' skill is impressive. I would definitely read more work by him. Sep 06, Nancy rated it really liked it Shelves: netgalley. It was a time of progress, dreams, and optimism, hot jazz and The Lindy Hop. It was also a time of world political unrest, racism, and anti-Semitism.
Cab Calloway was playing in The Cotton Club to a white audience while black maids lined up on the street to be picked up for day jobs, 3. Cab Calloway was playing in The Cotton Club to a white audience while black maids lined up on the street to be picked up for day jobs, hoping their employer didn't jilt them of their pay. Anti-lynching law petitions were circulating with little hope of impact. There is talk about Roosevelt's "latest plans for the ruination of the country," taking from the rich to give to the undeserving poor "who still lined up for free soup and stale bread.
Meanwhile in Europe, Hitler was taking over and Italy was embracing Fascism. The mission of the World's Fair was to "showcase the abundance and industrial might of America's great corporations.
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A highway system and a car in every garage! And there was the promise of "Asbestos: The Miracle Mineral. In Ireland, Francis Dempsey was serving a prison term for trafficking in banned books but is allowed to attend his father's funeral. Also at the funeral is his youngest brother Michael, released from the seminary he turned to after his true love married to solve her family's financial problems.
The boys are 'rescued', supplied with a car and a map to a remote cabin where IRA members make bombs. Francis accidentally sets off the explosives and is left with a shell-shocked Michael and the IRA's stash of money. Frances comes up with a First-Class Plan: he assumes a false identity and with Michael they take a ship to America. Meantime, Michael's memory, speech, and hearing has failed, but the ghost of William Butler Yeats has become his new best friend. The American gangster Gavigan, whose money Francis has stolen, rouses his retired henchman Cronin to tail Martin Dempsey, brother to Francis and Michael.
Martin has been in America ten years, and has a wife and children.
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He is a musician in love with 'jungle' music. Gavigan believes that Francis deliberately killed his Irish contacts and stole his money. He wants revenge. Cronin is to bring Francis to him. The Dempsey boys don't know that Cronin was mentored by the Dempsey patriarch, doing that which needed to be done for the IRA.
Like cold blooded murder. He hated that Dempsey exploited his baser nature, which he has tried to overcome in his new life with Alice and her son, enjoying the simple life as a farmer. Gavigan threatens Alice's life if Cronin fails. The set-up is long and perhaps overwritten, but it is full of color and vivid characters, and the writing clever with humorous insights.
The story later heats up and drives to a heart-pounding and satisfying ending. I loved the Dempsey brothers.
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The belief in an America as a place of fresh starts and miracles to come has become quite the nostalgic dream, or disdained hoax, to many Americans today. The novel takes us to a time when we still believed in a better tomorrow. I received a free ebook from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for a fair and unbiased review.
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May 24, Kristen McDermott rated it liked it Shelves: historical-fiction , reviewed-books , owned , hnr-reviews. Mathews, a professor of creative writing, uses every fictional trick he can think of to steer the three main characters—the passionate but hapless Dempsey brothers, Martin, Francis, and Michael—in and around the streets, hotels, dance clubs, and back alleys of the metropolis.
After a brief prologue on a luxury ship en route from Ireland to New York, where we meet Michael and his brother Francis, a scrappy escaped con with a stolen IRA bankroll, who has donned the persona of a louche Scottish lord, the rest of the story takes place during a single tumultuous week. But, there are many more characters, and whether readers will find this novel joyously overstuffed or annoyingly cluttered is a matter of taste.
Oct 01, BookBully rated it really liked it. I love a good family saga. It's the story of three Irish brothers who face multiple challenges in the summer of as New York City prepares for the World's Fair and a visit from the King and Queen of England. Martin Dempsey, the oldest, is trying to support a wife and two daughters while pursuing his passion for music.
Michael, the youngest, is frustrated by a head injury that comes with the sudden appearance of the I love a good family saga.
Michael, the youngest, is frustrated by a head injury that comes with the sudden appearance of the recently deceased Irish poet, William Butler Yeats. Yet it's the middle brother, Francis, who drives the plot as a handsome charmer running from the IRA. Along the way we meet Tom Cronin, a former IRA enforcer who believes his new life as a happily married farmer is safe and secure.
And there's Lilly Bloch, a talented photographer struggling with her conscience and her passion for her work.