Wonderful Town: New York Stories from "The New Yorker" - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0375503560 ISBN 13: 9780375503566

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 2000

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y is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the seventy-five-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its preeminent context with this collection of  forty-four of its best stories from (so to speak) home.

        East Side? Philip Roth's chronically tormented alter ego Nathan Zuckerman has just moved there, in "Smart Money." West Side? Isaac Bashevis Singer's narrator mingles with the customers in "The Cafeteria" (who debate politics and culture in four or five different languages) and becomes embroiled in an obsessional romance. And downtown, John Updike's Maples have begun their courtship of marital disaster, in "Snowing in Greenwich Village." John Cheever, John

Biografía del autor:

DAVID REMNICK is the editor of The New Yorker. He began his career as a sportswriter for The Washington Post and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for Lenin's Tomb. He is also the author of Resurrection and The Devil Problem and Other True Stories, a collection of essays. He lives in New York City with his wife and three children.

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• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375503560
• ISBN 13: 9780375503566
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
• Herausgeber: Remnick David, Choi Susan