· ELIZABETH GAFFNEY is an advisory editor of The Paris Review. In addition to teaching writing at New York University, she has translated from German The Arboga. There is a large cast of secondary characters in Metropolis, as well as many side stories and digressions from the main narrative, on topics such as street paving, sewer building, underwater caisson excavation, women's health and bacteriology. Why did Gaffney choose to include all these characters and themes, and how do you think they contribute to the main story? At that point you’re already held fast in the snaking twists and turns of Elizabeth Gaffney’s first novel, Metropolis (Random House), amid bigger-than-life characters bearing names such as Dandy Johnny, Maggie the Dove, and Luther Undertoe (aka the Undertaker).
Chapter summaries of Metropolis by Elizabeth Gaffney. METROPOLIS By Elizabeth Gaffney. pp. Random House. In "Metropolis," her long, slow-moving first novel, Elizabeth Gaffney opts for plot No. 2. The stranger is a young German immigrant who dreams of becoming a stonemason on a cathedral. Metropolis. Elizabeth Gaffney. "Metropolis marks a superb fiction debut. "From the Hardcover edition.
Metropolis: A Novel by Elizabeth Gaffney. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, , Metropolis by Elizabeth Gaffney is a detailed epic of life in New York at the dawn of the modern age. Gaffney dutifully tends to the development of her characters and the city itself, with no stone left unturned. In addition, Gaffney crafts a compelling love story between the tough Beatrice O’Gamhna and the mysterious Frank Harris. Elizabeth Gaffney's magnificent, Dickensian "Metropolis captures the splendor and violence of America's greatest city in the years after the Civil War, as young immigrants climb out of urban chaos and into the American dream.
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