
One hot night last spring, after waiting fruitlessly for a call from my then lover, with whom I had quarreled the same afternoon, and finding one of my black moods upon me, I flung out of my lonely room on the ninth floor (unlucky number) in a hotel in lower Fifth Avenue and rushed into the streets of the Village, feeling bad.So begins Letty Fox's own story, a comic extravaganza in which she tells...
Series: New York Review Books Classics
Paperback: 592 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics; First Printing edition (April 9, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780940322707
ISBN-13: 978-0940322707
ASIN: 0940322706
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 1.1 x 8 inches
Amazon Rank: 2004218
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Many rate Christina Stead among the finest modern writers of the century, and there's almost no denying her skill with shaping a beautiful sentence. Unfortunately, Stead has trouble sometimes shaping a good novel--she tends to go and on--, and this d...
crazy circus of her early life; about her moping mother, absent father, and two impossible sisters; about work and play, sex and men, and the seemingly unending search for a lasting relationship. This vast Flemish canvas of a novel, full of strikingly realistic likenesses and unforgettable grotesques, is a major work by one of the outstanding novelists of the twentieth century.