In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves his native Georgia for New York City and the most dangerous job in America--as a sandhog, burrowing beneath the East River, digging the tunnel that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan.
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In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves his native Georgia for New York City and the most dangerous job in America--as a sandhog, burrowing beneath the East River, digging the tunnel that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan.
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New York. 1998. April 1998. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0805054529. 292 pages. hardcover. Cover photo by Frieder Blickle. keywords: Literature Ireland America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves the Okefenokee swamps of his native Georgia for New York City and the most dangerous job in America. A sandhog, he burrows beneath the East River, digging the underground tunnel that will carry trains between Brooklyn and Manhattan. In the bowels of the riverbed the sandhogs-black, white, Irish, Italian-dig together; above ground, though, the men keep their distance until a spectacular accident welds a bond between Walker and his fellow sandhogs that will bless and curse the next three generations. Years later, Treefrog, a homeless man driven below by a shameful secret, endures a punishing winter deep in his subway nest. In tones ranging from bleak to dark to disturbingly funny, Treefrog recounts his strategies of survival-killing rats, scavenging for soda cans, washing in the snow, sleeping through the cold-in New York's netherworld. Between Nathan Walker and Treefrog stretch seventy years of ill-fated loves, unintended crimes, and social taboos. The two stories fuse to form a tale of family, race, and redemption. inventory #25658.
