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Heyday.(Tales from the Town of Widows)(The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War)(The High Road to China)(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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"Tales from the Town of Widows," by James Canon

"The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War," by Leonard L. Richards

"The High Road to China," by Kate Teltscher

Andersen's second novel follows a mid-nineteenth-century English gentleman, Benjamin Knowles, who, after fleeing Europe for political reasons, arrives in New York and falls in with an autodidact dabbler. They befriend a pyromaniac firefighter and his prostitute sister, and, when the sister leaves New York for a series of utopian communes and experimental towns, the three men follow. The book ...

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