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Button Man

by Andrew Gross · 2018

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A stirring story of a Jewish family brought together in the dawn of the women's garment business and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in New York City in the 1930s.

Genre
crimecrimeMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of thishistorical mysteryhistorical mysteryMore like thisLess of this
Themes
JewishJewishMore like thisLess of thismafiamafiaMore like thisLess of this
Setting
20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisNew YorkNew YorkMore like thisLess of thisNew York StateNew York StateMore like thisLess of this
Subject
biographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 371 pages

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