Exile on Bridge Street
by Eamon Loingsigh

$15.95

Description

In 1916, teenage Irish immigrant Liam Garrity struggles to survive on his own in Brooklyn, while his family back in Ireland faces reprisals during the violence of the Easter Rising. With taut writing by a master of historical fiction, EXILE ON BRIDGE STREET relates Liam’s compelling personal story against a background of NYC’s brawling streets, Brooklyn Irish waterfront gangs, an influenza epidemic, the rest of Italian organized crime, and the start of American involvement in World War I. EXILE is part two of the Auld Irishtown trilogy, yet it can be read as a standalone book as well.

EXILE ON BRIDGE STREET: A Novel, by Eamon Loingsigh ISBN: 978-1-941110-42-3 Trade Paperback; ISBN: 978-1-941110-43-0 ebook; 360 pages; $15.95 Publication date: Tuesday, October 18, 2016

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High Praise for EXILE ON BRIDGE STREET

“On the surface, Loingsigh’s book mines Brooklyn’s gory and glorious Irish past.  But it is also the quintessential read for 21st century Brooklyn.” —Irish Central

“Loingsigh has an urgent story to tell. And he tells it well . . . Loingsigh’s great strength is his unsentimental take on the immigrant experience which—despite the rancor of today’s debate—often acquires a sepia tone when it is discussed in the past tense. EXILE ON BRIDGE STREET should be required reading.” —Brooklyn Rail

“A century following the first and until now last great novel of the Brooklyn waterfront, Ernest Poole’s The Harbor, Eamon Loingsigh offers this gripping tale, soaked in the Irish immigrant dockworker experience and laden with real life legends from a vanished world.” ——James T. Fisher, author of On the Irish Waterfront