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...SECOND REBELLION, by James McCague. A vivid account of how at least 1,200 people died and entire blocks of Manhattan were devastated during the 1863 antidraft riots by Irish immigrants who refused to fight in the Civil...
Until the 20th century came along, few communities of a few thousand men could have lived so foul a life as did the first white men in Sydney. By Keneally's fictional talent, all is made vivid as fresh blood; the reader is spared the statistical compilations of realist fiction. Yet, we learn in the course of this cruel narrative that a sentence of death by torture (500 lashes of the cat-o'-ninetails amounted to just that) could be handed out by a kangaroo court of Marine officers as casually as a parking fine would be imposed...
...different from the rock sound, which is more wild and vivid. Two of the songs in Big Pink do have a little bit of anger in them that the others don't have. It is interesting that these are the two written with Dylan. "Tears of Rage" and "This Wheel's on Fire" give a hint of how Dylan got from Blond on Blond to John Wesley Harding...
...SECOND REBELLION, by James McCague. A vivid account of how at least 1,200 people died and blocks of Manhattan were burned in the 1863 antidraft riots by Irish immigrants who refused to fight in the Civil...
...angriest of Britain's Angry Young Men, Alan Sillitoe made painfully vivid the mill-town world of chapped hands and cold-water sinks in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. In this novel, he seems neither quite so young and angry, nor quite so British...