A "masterful and moving" saga of 1909 New York City, where locals new and old seek to find their dreams -- and themselves (Booklist).

"Terrific fun... Historical fiction at its most entertaining." -- New York Times Book Review

A New York Times Notable Book

In a stunning work of imagination and memory, author Kevin Baker brings to mesmerizing life a vibrant, colorful, thrilling, and dangerous New York City in the earliest years of the twentieth century. A novel breathtaking in its scope and ambition, it is the epic saga of newcomers drawn to the promise of America -- gangsters and laborers, hucksters and politicians, radicals, reformers, murderers, and sideshow oddities -- whose stories of love, revenge, and tragedy interweave and shine in the artificial electric dazzle of a wondrous place called Dreamland.

"A Dickensian epic... meticulously researched and filled with passages of intoxicating, dreamlike frenzy." -- Entertainment Weekly

"An epic re-creation of an era... A boisterous, rollicking carnival." -- People

"One is tempted to call this grandly entertaining saga some kind of populist masterpiece, as Baker gauges the myth of the egalitarian American melting-pot against the corruption, economic exploitation and racism of a cutthroat society." -- Publishers Weekly

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