Slaves of New York (Bloomsbury Classic Reads) - Softcover

Janowitz, Tama

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074757460X ISBN 13: 9780747574606

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2004

Synopsis

A coterie of artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers are all aspiring towards fame and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers. Offbeat, funny and bitingly satirical, "Slaves of New York" sheds an incomparable light on the city's denizens and social mores.

About this title

Review:

'A fascinating, and fascinated, chronicler of the dystopian metropolis' -- Sunday Times

'The shrewd observation, the skewed invention ... are the gifts of a singular talent’ -- Jay McInerney

‘Brilliantly funny’ -- Independent

‘Laugh-out loud funny ... wonderful’ -- Washington Post

From the Back Cover:

Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers. But between the disappointments come snatches of self-awareness, and a strange beauty in their encounters with one another.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 074757460X
• ISBN 13: 9780747574606
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288