The Twenty-Seventh City: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0374279721
- ISBN-13
- 9780374279721
- Series
- The Twenty-Seventh City
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 517
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988-09-01
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Jonathan Franzen
Description
S. Jammu, a young, ambitious Indian woman, is sworn in as police chief of St. Louis where the acts of private citizens are monitored and the actions of Martin Probst and his family threatened to destroy her plan
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