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Saint Mazie de Jami Attenberg

Saint Mazie

Autor Jami Attenberg
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 iun 2015
Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and feisty, she runs The Venice, the famed movie theatre in the rundown Bowery district of New York City. She spends her days taking tickets, chatting with drunks and eccentrics, and chasing out the troublemakers. After closing up, the nights are her own, and she fills them with romance and booze aplenty - even during Prohibition.When the Great Depression hits, and homelessness soars, Mazie opens The Venice to those in need, giving them shelter and dimes for food and booze, and earning the nickname 'Saint Mazie'. Inspired by Joseph Mitchell's essay about Mazie in Up in the Old Hotel, acclaimed author Jami Attenberg's novel honours an extraordinary life and heralds a completely original approach to writing historical fiction. Weaving together fictionalised diaries, writings and interviews, Attenberg has constructed an utterly convincing portrait of Mazie Philips, which is also a deeply moving portrait of New York as it passed through the First World War, Prohibition, the boom of the '20s, and then the terrible depression of the '30s.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781846689918
ISBN-10: 1846689910
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:Export/Airside
Editura: Profile
Colecția Serpent's Tail
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Jami Attenberg is the author of a story collection, Instant Love, and the novels, The Kept Man and The Melting Season. Her last book, The Middlesteins, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and was published in nine countries. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her at www.jamiattenberg.com and follow her @jamiattenberg.

Recenzii

Saint Mazie offers proof again that Jami Attenberg is a brilliant, lion-hearted storyteller
I'd love to be Jami Attenberg for a day to see what she sees. The next best thing is to read the touching, funny, and wise Saint Mazie, which is as difficult to categorise as the hard-living, heart-breaking, soul-saving ticket-taker it is about.
SAINT MAZIE is a novel with as much style and moxie as its titular character. I missed Mazie Gordon-Phillips and her family when I was finished reading, but I missed New York, too. By telling this one woman's story, Jami Attenberg has managed to write an ode to New Yorkers of every generation. She is a true poet of the city.
Praise for The Middlesteins: 'Family ties are anything but simple, and the joy of this book lies in Attenberg's merciless, tender, often brilliantly funny peeling back of the layers of history. Sublime.
A moving, hilarious portrait of a family in crisis
The Middlesteins had me from its very first pages
Saint Mazie is a terrific novel - touching, funny, big-hearted, just like Mazie herself. It's written with great verve and brio, and I loved the way we circle around and then dig deeper into Mazie's life through the multiple voices and sources. It's Mazie herself, though, who shines the brightest, and who lingers on in the mind and heart, a real diamond in the rough