The Cold Millions av Jess Walter

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<p><b>''A beautiful, lyric hymn to the power of social unrest in American history...funny and harrowing, sweet and violent, innocent and experienced; it walks a dozen tightropes''</b> Anthony Doerr, author of <i>All the Light We Cannot See</i><br>_____________________________________________<br><br><b>1909. Spokane, Washington. </b><br><br>The Dolan brothers are living by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his dashing older brother Gig dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. <br><br>But then Rye finds himself drawn to suffragette Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and her passion sweeps him into the world of protest and dirty business. As a storm starts brewing, questions of love, sacrifice, brotherhood and betrayal emerge, threatening to overwhelm them all. . .<br><br><i>The Cold Millions</i> is at once an intimate story and a stunn