The Night Inspector

Harmony Books, USA, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Large Print Large Print. 278 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Harmony Books, USA, 1999. First Edition. Item Type: Large Print. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in very good dust jacket. More specifically: Covers have slight soiling. Corners of boards are lightly bumped. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping and superficial wear. Dust jacket is unclipped. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: A haunting story told with insight and powerful language, The Night Inspector chronicles an unforgettable character who navigates the desperate days and sleepless nights of a gilded yet polluted nineteenth-century New York. William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, returns from the battlefields to New York City a hardened man, bent on reversing his fortunes. Much of the lower half of his face was torn apart when he was felled by enemy fire, and he is forced to wear a mask in his postwar life as a New York financial speculator. Despite the solitude of his past life, Bartholomew, once a deadly sniper, now lives among all manner of slum dwellers, thieves, and murderers. As he prowls the city, he becomes involved with Jessie, a Creole prostitute who engages him in a venture that has its origins in the complexities and despair of the Civil War. And he befriends a deputy inspector of customs named Herman Melville--who, largely forgotten as a writer, is condemned to live in the wake of his vanished literary success and in the turmoil of his fractured family. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 0609602357. ISBN/EAN: 9780609602355. Inventory No: 23090145.. 9780609602355