· Spindle City delves deep into the lives, loves, and fortunes of real and imagined mill owners, anarchists, and immigrants, from the Highlands mansions to the tenements of the Cogsworth slum, chronicling a mill town’s—and a generation’s—last days of bltadwin.ru: Blackstone Publishing. In Spindle City, Jotham Burrello provides an unusual take on American history—the dramatization of an early 20th century industrial town at the height of its success /5. “In Spindle City, a delicately embroidered novel stitched with intrigue, author Jotham Burrello reimagines the early twentieth-century heyday of Fall River, Massachusetts, through the rise and fall of textile manufacturer Joseph Bartlett—a man beset by two wayward sons, the winds of labor agitation, and a secret he carries like a millstone. From the Portuguese laborers on the shop floors to the Yankee .
Spindle City By Jotham Burrello Blackstone Publishing, pages. Donald G. Evans. Donald G. Evans is the author of three books, most recently the story collection An Off-White Christmas, and Founding Executive Director of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. Related Stories. jotham-burrello, spindle-city I love the Lizzie Borden legend as much as any loyal and true Fall River native, but a historical novel set in my hometown in a different era is an unexpected pleasure. Jotham Burrello's Spindle City spans the first quarter of the twentieth century, the heyday of Fall River's textiles boom (and foreshadows its. A roaring debut., In Spindle City, a delicately embroidered novel stitched with intrigue, author Jotham Burrello reimagines the early twentieth-century heyday of Fall River, Massachusetts, through the rise and fall of textile manufacturer Joseph Bartlett--a man beset by two wayward sons, the winds of labor agitation, and a secret he carries.
Spindle City delves deep into the lives, loves, and fortunes of real and imagined mill owners, anarchists, and immigrants, from the Highlands mansions to the tenements of the Cogsworth slum, chronicling a mill town’s—and a generation’s—last days of glory. In Spindle City, New England of a century ago is reborn a riot of cotton bales and quahog bushels, toboggan rides and Model Ts. Whether we find ourselves amidst the euphoria of a city-wide carnival or within the hearts of his grieving, striving characters, Jotham Burrello isolates, in the particularities of this lost world, timeless lessons about loyalty, ambition, and human resilience. Jotham Burrello’s Spindle City spans the first quarter of the twentieth century, the heyday of Fall River’s textiles boom (and foreshadows its inevitable bust). Burrello has created a satisfyingly complex world, rich in historical detail.
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