Round The Block

Round the Block

by John Bell Bouton

Round the Block is a richly-charactered novel that offers a fascinating slice of life in bustling New York City shortly before the Civil War. With Dickensian brio, John Bell Bouton explores the schemes and dreams of the average and extraordinary people inhabiting and intermingling on a single city block. Along the way, we encounter mystery, romance, and a murder trial, as love-matches and fortunes are made and lost through invention, speculation, and flimflam.

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