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Synopsis
This remarkable novel by Elaine Kraf received almost no attention when it was first published in 1979. For whatever reasons, America was not ready for this dream-like look at life inside the head of a young woman, a struggling artist, living in New York's Upper West Side and coping with the ravages of manic-depression.
Not only did Kraf take on a dark and disturbing subject, she did so in an utterly original, witty, and inventive manner--a provocative move, even in the liberated culture of the 1970s. And, while others have since expanded upon the territory that Kraf was mining, one still has to go as far back as the early down-and-out-in-Paris novels of Jean Rhys to find a writer who so boldly and honestly portrays a smart, sardonic, attractive, but deeply troubled woman fighting to survive on her own in the city.
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Review
"Kraf writes ironically about the habits of madness without trivializing the grimness and pain." --?Laurie Stone, "Village Voice"
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In Elaine Kraf's witty, sardonic novel The Princess of 72nd Street, The Princess Esmeralda is sure of her royalty, her seizures of 'radiance, ' and her domain-Manhattan's 72nd Street from Central Park West to Riverside Drive. On the other hand, Ellen has trouble coping with an ex-lover, his psychiatrist, an ex-husband, dining out, putting just one color on her canvases at a time, and trying to keep a radiant Esmeralda from being arrested.
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