The Twenty-Seventh City
528 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1988
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ISBN: 9780312420147
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 8 September 2001
Description
St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. A classic of contemporary fiction, The Twenty-Seventh City shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, and the American Dream unraveling into terror and dark comedy.