Ebook {Epub PDF} Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry

In the prologue to Leslie Parry's novel, Isabelle Church, a sword-swallower, looks back with nostalgia on her life as a teenager in an s sideshow. Alas, the theater her mother founded, the titular "Church of Marvels," is no more. This Coney Island landmark burned . Moving from the Coney Island seashore to the tenement-studded streets of the Lower East Side, a spectacular human circus to a brutal, terrifying asylum, Church of Marvels takes readers back to turn-of-the-century New York—a city of hardship and dreams, love and loneliness, hope and danger. In magnetic, luminous prose, Leslie Parry offers a richly atmospheric vision of the past in a narrative of /5(). Moving from the Coney Island seashore to the tenement-studded streets of the Lower East Side, a spectacular human circus to a brutal, terrifying asylum, Church of Marvels takes readers back to turn-of-the-century New York - a city of hardship and dreams, love and loneliness, hope and danger. In magnetic, luminous prose, Leslie Parry offers a richly atmospheric vision of the past in a narrative of .

Church of Marvels. by Leslie Parry. Thanks for Sharing! You submitted the following rating and review. We'll publish them on our site once we've reviewed them. 1. Ratings. by on Novem. OK, close 3. Write your review. eBook Details. Ecco Release Date: May 5, ; Imprint: Ecco. Moving from the Coney Island seashore to the tenement-studded streets of the Lower East Side, a spectacular human circus to a brutal, terrifying asylum, Church of Marvels takes readers back to turn-of-the-century New York - a city of hardship and dreams, love and loneliness, hope and danger. In magnetic, luminous prose, Leslie Parry offers a. [Parry's] writing is often exquisite, and her imagery is breathtaking., Leslie Parry's debut novel, Church of Marvels, is saturated with enthralling characters making their way through the turbulence of New York City at the end of the nineteenth century… [B]reathtaking., [U]tterly captivating… In her first novel, Parry… has.

Church of Marvels was a debut historical fiction novel by Leslie Parry taking place during the tumultuous turn-of-the-century in Coney Island and New York's Lower East Side. Leslie Parry’s debut novel opens with a strange discovery: Sylvan, an isolated young man living on the Lower East Side of s Manhattan, finds an infant abandoned in a privy. Sylvan is a night. Set in nineteenth-century New York City, Leslie Parry’s historical mystery, Church of Marvels (), follows a group of strangers whose lives are changed forever. Parry’s debut novel, it received an overwhelmingly positive critical reception. The book blends a touch of magical realism with the gritty realities of life in New York City.