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Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now PATRICK MCGRATH. Bloomsbury, $16.95 (256p) ISBN 1-58234-312-8
Beneath Manhattan's ever-changing skyline, familial betrayal and guilt remain hauntingly constant in these three juicy novellas, the latest in Bloomsbury's Writer in the City series. In "The Year of the Gibbet," set in the burned-out, British-occupied city of 1777, a boy inadvertently exposes his mother as a spy for General Washington; after she is hanged, her ghost returns to torment him. "Julius" moves ahead to the Civil War era to tell the Jamesian saga of a weak-minded art student who goes insane when his wealthy businessman father breaks up his …
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