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THE RACKETS by Thomas Kelly
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First edition, first printing, new/unread in flawless dustjacket. 2001 NY: FSG ISBN 9780374177201
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RACKETS, THE by Thomas Kelly - FIRST EDITION BOOK

FSG: NY 2001First edition, first printing, new/unread in flawless dustjacket.

A bare-knuckled novel set during a rigged union election in New York City.

With The Rackets ¬ó about construction workers and the mobsters who run their union ¬ó Thomas Kelly, the most talented urban novelist to come along in a generation, cements his reputation as the heir to James T. Farrell and George V. Higgins.

After putting himself through college by working as a day laborer, Jimmy Dolan goes to work for a smug Republican mayor. When he tries to settle an old dispute with his fists, he finds himself out of a job ¬ó and sought out by Frankie Keefe, the corrupt union boss he knocked to the carpet. Jimmy's saintly father is running against Keefe for the presidency of the teamsters, and when he is brutally forced out of the running, Jimmy must risk his life ¬ó and that of his estranged girlfriend, Tara, a New York policewoman ¬ó to defend the interests of the rank and file.

The novel, set in the union halls, taverns, and half-built skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan, depicts every shade of New York Irish ¬ó as well as Italian mobsters, Russian killers, and a gun-running Gulf War veteran on disability. But The Rackets is also a vivid and affecting picture of the gritty uptown neighborhood of Inwood and the lives its residents have made for themselves.

More than any writer working today, Kelly knows how the players in the city gain and maintain their power from the ups and downs of the working class, he makes literature.

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