The Great Mistake: A novel
- ISBN-10
- 0525658505
- ISBN-13
- 9780525658504
- Series
- The Great Mistake
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-06-15
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Author
- Jonathan Lee
Description
An exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, about one man's rise to fame and fortune, and his mysterious murder—“Riveting, immersive . . . An unparalleled feat of elegance and craftsmanship” (Stephanie Danler, author of Sweetbitter). Andrew Haswell Green is dead, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing—on Park Avenue in broad daylight, on Friday the thirteenth—shook the city. Born to a struggling farmer, Green was a self-made man without whom there would be no Central Park, no Metropolitan Museum of Art, no Museum of Natural History, no New York Public Library. But Green had a secret, a life locked within him that now, in the hour of his death, may finally break free. A work of tremendous depth and piercing emotion, The Great Mistake is the story of a city transformed, a murder that made a private man infamous, and a portrait of a singular individual who found the world closed off to him—yet enlarged it.
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Other editions
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- 2018-10-01
- 448 pages
- Paperback
- Johns Hopkins University Press
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