Remarkable, Unspeakable New York - Couverture souple

O'Connell, Shaun

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807050032 ISBN 13 : 9780807050033

Editeur : Beacon Press, 1997

Synopsis

Book by OConnell Shaun

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Remarkable, Unspeakable New York is as lively and exciting as the city which is its focus. Shaun O'Connell clearly demonstrates that the nation's metropolis, as setting and character, has inspired the greatest achievements of many American writers. —Kenneth T. Jackson, editor-in-chief, The Encyclopedia of New York City

"O'Connell's literary history of New York is informative and readable, written with affection and a poetic flair. . . . Highly recommended." —S. I. Bellman, Choice

"There is scarcely a sentence here without its critical discernments. . . . Shaun O'Connell's New York is sometimes a place of possibility, . . . sometimes the City of Destruction, but remarkable or unspeakable, always readable." —Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe

"O'Connell's entertaining history will greatly interest literature devotees." —Publishers Weekly

Présentation de l'éditeur :

From Old New York to the Harlem Renaissance, the Algonquin Round Table to the New York Intellectuals, the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, Remarkable, Unspeakable New York offers a sweeping new view of New York's place in the American literary imagination. James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, E. L. Doctorow, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oscar Hijuelos, Langston Hughes, Washington Irving, Henry James, Toni Morrison, Dorothy Parker, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, and Tom Wolfe are among the many writers whose literary legacies are brought to life.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Beacon Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0807050032
• ISBN 13: 9780807050033
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 396