On the River, Down Where They Found Willy BrownOn the River, Down Where They Found Willy Brown
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Book, 2015
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Current format, Book, 2015, 1st ed, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsThe story of an immigrant boy who's caught up in a race riot and lynching, based on events surrounding the Omaha Race Riot of 1919. While trying to find a safe place in the world after being exiled from his home during a global war, Karel Miihlstein is caught in a singular historical moment and one of America's most tragic episodes. Written in the tradition of the historically-set work of Don DeLillo, Denis Johnson, and Colum McCann, On the River, Down Where They Found Willy Brown depicts its characters in deep personal detail and wide social panorama-from a contentious Interrace baseball game on the Fourth of July to the ear-splitting clatter of a race riot-while revealing the folly of human nature in an age of astonishing ambition. reporter covering the civil courts of Nebraska.
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