Empire Rising.EMPIRE RISING. Thomas Kelly. 2005. Read by Michael Deehy. 13 cds. 16.25 hrs. Sound Library/BBC Audiobooks America. 0-7927-3446-7. $112.95.Vinyl; plot, author, reader notes. A New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. in the early 1930s was mired mire n. 1. An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground; a bog. 2. Deep slimy soil or mud. 3. A disadvantageous or difficult condition or situation: the mire of poverty. v. in the depths of the Depression and gangsters and racketeers ran the city. The decision to construct the Empire State Building provided employment for many and inspiration to a city sorely in need of cheering up. This novel, set against this backdrop, traces the life of Michael Broidy, one of the ironworkers on the job. By day, he welds steel with red-hot rivets hundreds of feet above the city. By night, he is involved with murder and gunrunning gun·run·ner n. One that smuggles firearms and ammunition. gun  run for the Irish Republican Army Irish Republican Army (IRA), nationalist organization devoted to the integration of Ireland as a complete and independent unit. Organized by Michael Collins from remnants of rebel units dispersed after the Easter Rebellion in 1916 (see Ireland), it was composed of , as well as a love affair with the girlfriend of one of the city's top racketeers. This book is mainly about the underworld of New York--you meet many gangsters, and see their inevitable demise at the hands of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of governor with Presidential ambitions. Deehy's reading is outstanding. His voice is clear and well modulated, and his Irish accent perfectly reflects the mainly Irish cast in the book. Sex, violence, and ethnic slurs. Susan Offner, Teacher, Lexington HS, Lexington, MA |
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