The Gangs Of New York
An Informal History of the Underworld
$34.34
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
3 February 2003
Summary
Asbury’s violent, visceral novel was adapted by Martin Scorsese into the biggest film of 2002. Nominated for ten Oscars, winner of two BAFTAs and one Golden Globe, Gangs of New York had a hit cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Liam Neeson.
Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognizable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence, centered around the infamous slum of Five Points, with its rival Irish and American gangs. Cobbled fr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099436744 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099436744 |
| Author: | Herbert Asbury |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 3 February 2003 |
| Weight: | 269g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
Asbury was a realist and mid-Western moralist whose book is, as Gopnik notes, ‘a kind of surrealist collage of the city’s secret history’
Asbury was a realist and mid-Western moralist whose book is, as Gopnik notes, ‘a kind of surrealist collage of the city’s secret history’ – Robert McCrum * Observer *
Like one of the thugs he writes about, he really is an “extraordinary virtuoso in the art of mayhem” * Financial Times *
About The Author
Herbert Asbury
Herbert Asbury was born into a strictly Methodist family in Missouri in 1889. His pious background and his subsequent rejection of Methodism greatly influenced both his philosophy of life and his career as reporter and author. Indeed, many of his books deal with the darker, seamier side of American life. He is best know for his true crime books set in the 19th and early 20th century America. He died in 1963 of chronic lung problems, the legacy of a gas-attack in France during the first World War.
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