02235cam a2200373 i 4500 623524170 TxAuBib 20220315120000.0 201006s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020044828 9780525658498 hardcover 0525658491 hardcover (OCoLC)1197721446 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda DLC rda OCLCO rda DLC MJ8 OCLCO IFK GZD TxAuBib OCLCO MJ8 OCLCO IFK GZD TxAuBib rda Lee, Jonathan, 1981-, author. The Great Mistake / By Jonathan Lee. Great Mistake : A novel. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. 289 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier An exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, about one man's rise to fame and fortune, and his mysterious murder--"Riveting, immersive ... An unparalleled feat of elegance and craftsmanship" (Stephanie Danler, author of Sweetbitter ). Andrew Haswell Green is dead, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing--on Park Avenue in broad daylight, on Friday the thirteenth--shook the city. Born to a struggling farmer, Green was a self-made man without whom there would be no Central Park, no Metropolitan Museum of Art, no Museum of Natural History, no New York Public Library. But Green had a secret, a life locked within him that now, in the hour of his death, may finally break free. A work of tremendous depth and piercing emotion, The Great Mistake is the story of a city transformed, a murder that made a private man infamous, and a portrait of a singular individual who found the world closed off to him--yet enlarged it. 20220315. Mistaken identity Fiction. Murder Fiction. Errors Fiction. New York (N.Y) Fiction. Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. Fiction. TXKPL