{"product_id":"akler-howard-the-city-man-9781552451588","title":"The City Man","description":"March 6, 1934. Hundreds gather outside City Hall to celebrate the Toronto Centenary. In the crowd, pickpocket Mona Kantor and her partner, Chesler, are 'in the tip, ' finding easy pickings among the jostling masses. Eli Morenz, city man for the \"Daily Star,\" is covering the festivities and uncovering the pickpocket racket working the scene. A surreptitious photo and some keen research lead him to an underworld dive in Kensington Market where Toronto's pickpockets converge - and to Mona. Moving from a tense newsroom on King Street to the frenetic grift at Union Station, \"The City Man\" is a romance that begins in an instant and careens towards peril. Akler's prose is as deft as a thief's fingers, as precise and powerful as a heavyweight's punch. Packed with enchanting, arcane period slang and comparable in its evocation of a lost Toronto to Michael Ondaatje's \"In the Skin of a Lion,\" this is a novel of exceptional grace, excitement and beauty.","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":53585855676758,"sku":"9781552451588-V","price":1.03,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781552451588_1.jpg?v=1778471876","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/akler-howard-the-city-man-9781552451588","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}