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The Museum of Extraordinary Things : a novel /

The daughter of a Coney Island boardwalk curiosities museum's front man pursues an impassioned love affair with a Russian immigrant photographer who after fleeing his Lower East Side Orthodox community has captured poignant images of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoffman, Alice
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2014.
Edition:First Scribner hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Young women > Fiction.
Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
Russians > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
New York (State) > History > 20th century > Fiction.
FICTION / General.
FICTION / Historical.
FICTION / Jewish.
Jewish fiction.
Romance fiction.
Love stories.
Description
Summary:The daughter of a Coney Island boardwalk curiosities museum's front man pursues an impassioned love affair with a Russian immigrant photographer who after fleeing his Lower East Side Orthodox community has captured poignant images of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
"An extraordinarily imaginative and immersive novel, this one set in New York from 1911-1925"--
Physical Description:368 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-368).
ISBN:9781451693560 (hbk.)
1451693567 (hbk.)