The Museum of Extraordinary Things
(2014)
By:
Hoffman, Alice
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/HOFFMAN,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Scribner, 2014
EDITION
First Scribner hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION
368 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781451693560 (hbk.), 1451693567 (hbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The daughter of a Coney Island boardwalk curiosities museum's front man pursues an impassioned love affair with a Russian immigrant photographer who after fleeing his Lower East Side Orthodox community has captured poignant images of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
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