On Night's Shore

by Randall Silvis

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It is the summer of 1840--for some in New York City a season of prosperity; for others, another season of desperation. This is the milieu of "On Night's Shore," an amazing literary thriller from an author hailed by the "New York Times Book Review" as "a masterful storyteller." Randall Silvis's "On Night's Shore" opens with one of the most spellbinding scenes in contemporary writing. A girl tosses her baby from a warehouse window, then follows the infant into the Hudson River far below. The only witness to this desperate act is a ten-year-old street arab named Augie Dubbins, a...Read more
  • ISBN10 0312982100
  • ISBN13 9780312982102
  • Publish Date 3 April 2002 (first published 19 January 2001)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 8 November 2011
  • Publish Country ZA
  • Imprint Pan Macmillan
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 368
  • Language English