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Metropolis by Elizabeth Gaffney

Metropolis

A Novel

by Elizabeth Gaffney
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  • First Published:
  • Mar 1, 2005, 480 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Feb 2006, 480 pages
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Elizabeth Gaffney is an advisory editor of The Paris Review, teaches writing at New York University and has translated a number of German novels into English. Her short fiction has appeared in North American Review, Colorado Review, Brooklyn Review, Mississippi Review, The Reading Room, and Epiphany. Metropolis is her first novel. She is also the author and narrator of a 'City Reads' guide, The Brooklyn Bridge: From City To Metropolis (2004).

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