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Bandbox: A Novel
por Thomas Mallon
- Novo
- Capa dura
- Condição
- Novo/New
- ISBN 10
- 0375421165
- ISBN 13
- 9780375421167
- Livreiro
-
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
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Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. From the author of Henry and Clara, a dazzling, hilarious novel that captures the heart and soul of New York in the Jazz Age.
Bandbox is a hugely successful magazine, a glamorous monthly cocktail of 1920s obsessions from the stock market to radio to gangland murder. Edited by the bombastic Jehoshaphat "Joe" Harris, the magazine has a masthead that includes, among many others, a grisly, alliterative crime writer; a shy but murderously determined copyboy; and a burned-out vaudeville correspondent who's lovesick for his loyal, dewy assistant.
As the novel opens, the defection of Harris's most ambitious protégé has plunged Bandbox into a death struggle with a new competitor on the newsstand. But there's more to come: a sabotaged fiction contest, the NYPD vice squad, a subscriber's kidnapping, and a film-actress cover subject who makes the heroines of Fosse's Chicago look like the girls next door. While Harris and his magazine careen from comic crisis to make-or-break calamity, the novel races from skyscraper to speakeasy, hops a luxury train to Hollywood, and crashes a buttoned-down dinner with Calvin Coolidge.
Thomas Mallon has given us a madcap and poignant book that brilliantly portrays the gaudiest American decade of them all.
Sinopse
"Cuddles Houlihan got clipped by the vodka bottle as it exited the pneumatic tube. . . ." With that bottle we enter Bandbox, a hugely successful magazine of the 1920s, run by bombastic Jehoshaphat "Joe" Harris. Harris's most ambitious protégé ("the bastard son he never had") has just defected to run the competition, plunging Bandbox into a newsstand death struggle. The magazine's fight for survival will soon involve a sabotaged fiction contest, the vice squad, a subscriber's kidnapping, and a film-actress cover subject who makes the heroines of Chicago look like the girls next door. While Harris and his magazine careen from comic crisis to make-or-break calamity, the reader races from skyscraper to speakeasy. Thomas Mallon has given us a madcap romp of a book that brilliantly portrays Manhattan in the gaudiest American decade of them all.
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- Livreiro
- The Anthropologists Closet
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 200695
- Título
- Bandbox: A Novel
- Autor
- Thomas Mallon
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Novo
- Condição de sobrecapa
- New
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0375421165
- ISBN 13
- 9780375421167
- Editorial
- Pantheon
- Local de publicação
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Data de publicação
- 2004
- Palavras-chave
- Roaring 20s, Jazz age, Novel, Historical fiction, New York,
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