The Great Mistake
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Graham Halstead
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Written by:
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Jonathan Lee
About this listen
An exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, about one man's rise to fame and fortune, and his mysterious murder—“engrossing” (Wall Street Journal), “immersive” (The New Yorker), and “seriously entertaining” (The Sunday Times, London).
Andrew Haswell Green is dead, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing - on Park Avenue in broad daylight, on Friday the 13th - shook the city.
Born to a struggling farmer, Green was a self-made man without whom there would be no Central Park, no Metropolitan Museum of Art, no Museum of Natural History, no New York Public Library. But Green had a secret, a life locked within him that now, in the hour of his death, may finally break free.
A work of tremendous depth and piercing emotion, The Great Mistake is the story of a city transformed, a murder that made a private man infamous, and a portrait of a singular individual who found the world closed off to him - yet enlarged it.
©2021 Jonathan Lee (P)2021 Random House AudioWhat the critics say
One of the Best Books of the Year: The Guardian, LitHub
One of CrimeReads' Best Historical Novels of the Year
A Best Book of Summer: Entertainment Weekly, Oprah Quarterly, Vulture, Town & Country, Refinery29
“Engrossing.... Genuinely impressive...Lee is an excellent sketcher of character, setter of scene, and weaver of research.... None of Lee’s sentences is soulless. They brim with life and music and filigree-fine craft.” (The Wall Street Journal)
“Unforgettable.... It would be easy to recommend The Great Mistake for its confident, well-researched, and impeccably crafted take on a singular individual who had so much to do with the creation of New York City as we know it. But you should really read this book for Lee’s exquisite prose, his poetic shadings of a life and a time in which so much was possible.” (Chicago Review of Books)
“Finely drawn...Jonathan Lee’s intriguing novel has all the ingredients of a whodunit, but he’s more interested in the personal mysteries of the man who opened up the city ‘while keeping himself closed’.” (Alida Becker, New York Times Book Review)