Name: The Night Inspector

Author: Frederick Busch
Year: 1999
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Genres/categories:
Historical fiction

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ISBNs:
9780449006153
0449006158
From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List):
The Night Inspector follows the extraordinary life of William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, as he returns from the battlefields to New York City, bent on reversing his fortunes. It is there he meets Jessie, a Creole prostitute who engages him in a venture that has its origins in the complexities and despair of the conflict he has left behind. He also befriends a deputy inspector of Customs named Herman Melville who, largely forgotten as a writer, is condemned to live in the wake of his vanished literary success and in the turmoil of his fractured family.


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