Remarkable, Unspeakable New York: A Literary History - Softcover

O'Connell, Shaun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807050032 ISBN 13: 9780807050033

Publisher: Beacon Press, 1997

Synopsis

A sweeping history of New York's place in the American literary imagination, featuring James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oscar Hijuelos, Dorothy Parker, and many other writers.

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Review:

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

Synopsis:

Partly literary and part social history, this text draws on more than 100 works of fiction, drama, memoir, poetry and travel writing to offer a sweeping view of New York's place in the American literary imagination.

About this edition

• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0807050032
• ISBN 13: 9780807050033
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 396