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Ghosts of New York (Paperback or Softback)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 1949199967
- EAN
- 9781949199963
- Binding
- TP
- Book Title
- Ghosts of New York
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- West Virginia University Press
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), General, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 14.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 300 Pages
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* A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR* "A wondrous novel, with prose that sparkles like certain sidewalks after rain. . . . That's it, I thought. That's exactly what it's like to live in New York." -- New York Times Book Review Ghosts of New York is a novel in which the laws of time and space have been subtly suspended. It interweaves four strands: a photographer newly returned to the neighborhood where she grew up, after years spent living overseas; a foundling raised on 14th Street; a graduate student, his romantic partner, and his best friend entangled in a set of relationships with far-reaching personal and political repercussions; and a shopkeeper suffering from first love late in life. Mixing prophecy, history, and a hint of speculative fiction, its stories are bound together even as they are propelled into stranger territory. And undergirding it all is a song, which appears, disappears, and then resurfaces. Ghosts of New York explores complex lives through indelible renderings of settings--a bar, a night market, a recording studio--that alternate between familiar and unsettling. The work of a celebrated novelist and veteran of the art, film, and music scenes in New York and Austin (described as "a rare talent" by the New York Times and "a powerful literary voice" by Jeffrey Eugenides), this novel will immediately absorb readers intrigued by creative people and the places that sustain and challenge them.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
West Virginia University Press
ISBN-10
1949199967
ISBN-13
9781949199963
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2321442187
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ghosts of New York
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), General, Literary
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
300 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3562.E9475g56 2021
Reviews
"Lewis is a master at painting developed characters captured in various moments in time. . . . The lyrical narration is continuously engaging, especially as the episodic stories begin to interlace." -- Booklist, "Jim Lewis sees like a photographer and writes like an avenging angel." Sally Mann, author of Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs, "Reads like a striking literary version of the movie My Dinner with Andre . . . . The writing is beautiful, crisp, and keen-eyed." Kirkus Reviews "In Jim Lewis's wondrous novel Ghosts of New York , encounters among strangers result in unexpected relationships and a montage that celebrates a city of manifold graces. . . . A subtle, dexterous novel." Foreword Reviews, "Jim Lewis is one of my favorite writers. He's an exquisite stylist with an unsparing eye. In Ghosts of New York , he reveals the city to us through both a magnifying glass and a prism, bringing all facets of it into light. A marvelous novel." Rabih Alameddine, author of The Angel of History and An Unnecessary Woman, "A wondrous novel, with prose that sparkles like certain sidewalks after rain. . . . That's it, I thought. That's exactly what it's like to live in New York." New York Times Book Review "A collection of connected stories that is so imbued with the city in which it's set that it could not possibly have taken place anywhere else." San Francisco Chronicle, "A wondrous novel, with prose that sparkles like certain sidewalks after rain. . . . That's it, I thought. That's exactly what it's like to live in New York." New York Times Book Review "A masterful tapestry created through the interwoven lives of some of New York's disparate, imperfect, and vulnerable souls, and set against the backdrop of a city that is a character unto itself: chameleonic, contradictory, hallucinatory yet visceral, fiercely wanting yet fiercely self-protective." Richard Price, author of Lush Life, " Ghosts of New York is an intricate cat's cradle of life trajectories and a beautifully vulnerable work of fiction." Jardine Libaire, author of White Fur, "Reads like a striking literary version of the movie My Dinner with Andre . . . . The writing is beautiful, crisp, and keen-eyed." Kirkus Reviews, "Lewis is a master at painting developed characters captured in various moments in time. . . . The lyrical narration is continuously engaging, especially as the episodic stories begin to interlace." Booklist, "A masterful tapestry created through the interwoven lives of some of New York's disparate, imperfect, and vulnerable souls, and set against the backdrop of a city that is a character unto itself: chameleonic, contradictory, hallucinatory yet visceral, fiercely wanting yet fiercely self-protective." Richard Price, author of Lush Life, "A masterful tapestry created through the interwoven lives of some of New York's disparate, imperfect, and vulnerable souls, and set against the backdrop of a city that is a character unto itself: chameleonic, contradictory, hallucinatory yet visceral, fiercely wanting yet fiercely self-protective." Richard Price, author of Lush Life "Jim Lewis is one of my favorite writers. He's an exquisite stylist with an unsparing eye. In Ghosts of New York , he reveals the city to us through both a magnifying glass and a prism, bringing all facets of it into light. A marvelous novel." Rabih Alameddine, author of The Angel of History and An Unnecessary Woman
Copyright Date
2021
Lccn
2020-051293
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
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