Ten months into a blissful marriage, wealthy young Horace Endicott learns something about his wife Sonia that destroys his world, and after a fateful meeting with a worldly-wise monsignor he vanishes, leaving his old self for dead. Under another name he finds his way into the Dillon clan and the boisterous politics of Irish New York, from Coney Island villas to election day.
A priest-novelist’s affectionate, humorous portrait of Irish Catholic New York at the end of the nineteenth century. Download the free EPUB.