Dimensions
130 x 198 x 20mm
A powerful novel about the underclass in New York by the prize-winning author of 'Dancer'.
A love story in three generations, this is also about hope and despair, and about the survival of the human spirit. On a bitter winter's day in 1916, deep below the streets of New York, a group of men is working in one of the huge pressurised tunnels that will make up the subway system.
Suddenly, a tiny hold appears in the roof of the tunnel and the air rushes in, sucking the men up through the bed of the Hudson, to be suspended on a spume of water high above the river. Almost ninety years later, Treefrog, a homeless man, stumbles through the same corridor, under the twirling flakes of snow, to make his makeshift home under the city.
