This finely crafted novel provides a memorable glimpse of life and love in New York in the 1920s.Janet Flanner, who as Genet wrote a fort-nightly Letter from Paris for the "New Yorker "magazine for almost fifty years, has recently told of her experiences in Paris in her widely acclaimed book "Paris"" Was Yesterday. "Here in her only published novel, "The Cubical City," " "she provides an extraordinaryand memorableglimpse of the young artist in New York during the Jazz Age. In an Afterword written for this new edition she ...
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This finely crafted novel provides a memorable glimpse of life and love in New York in the 1920s.Janet Flanner, who as Genet wrote a fort-nightly Letter from Paris for the "New Yorker "magazine for almost fifty years, has recently told of her experiences in Paris in her widely acclaimed book "Paris"" Was Yesterday. "Here in her only published novel, "The Cubical City," " "she provides an extraordinaryand memorableglimpse of the young artist in New York during the Jazz Age. In an Afterword written for this new edition she discusses the writer s craft and her early schooling in and dedication to it.The story concerns the young, talented, and liberated Delia Poole who, after emerging from the Middle West and after a period of struggle, is enjoying success as a costume designer for New York musical reviews. In love with New York, established in her own studio, and enjoying life, she finds her life complicated by Paul, the impecunious suitor, and by the death of her father and her mother s removal to New York."
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Good. This is a former library book with library stickers and stamps. 100% of this purchase will support literacy programs through a nonprofit organization!
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Fine in good dust jacket. Thin pen line bottom of pages, small chips/tears top edge of o/w good dj. cover and pages bright and clean. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 440 p. Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques. Audience: General/trade. A classic example of the city novel, of the artistic life in New York in the Jazz Age. Flanner, as "Genet, " wrote "Letter from Paris" for the New Yorker for almost 50 years.
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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Published by the Southern Illinois University Press, 1974, as part of the Lost American Fiction series. This 5"x7-3/8" hardback book is bound in black cloth and is in very good condition with a good slightly edgeworn dust jacket that has been price-clipped. Previous owner ink namestamp mostly removed from free endpapers (slight scuff marks), otherwise unmarked, 433pp.
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Fair. Fair condition. Moderate to heavy shelf wear or edge wear on covers and spine. Creasing and a large worn spot on spine cover. Binding intact. (H17)
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Fine in Very Good jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 433 pp. The jacket is price-clipped, and is slightly scuffed at edges and creased at the lower edge of the fornt panel. A reprint of the author's only novel, originally published in 1926. Part of the publisher's Lost American Fiction series.
