Lasting City
The Anatomy of Nostalgia
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 323 pages ; 25 cm
Enjoined by his dying mother to "tell everything," James McCourt was liberated by this deathbed wish to do just that. The result is Lasting City, a gripping, uniquely McCourt invention: an operatic recollection that braids a nostalgic portrait of old-Irish New York with a boy{u2019}s funny, gutter-snipe precocity and hardly innocent coming-of-age in the 1940s and '50s. A literary outlaw in the poetic tradition of Verlaine and Baudelaire, McCourt tells his own story, his mother's, his family's, and that of a lost New York, the lasting city. While ostensibly an account of the author's first seven years, Lasting City expands into a philosophical exploration of memory, perhaps as daring a statement on perception as anything since Faulkner{u2014}a kaleidoscopic unraveling of time.
ISBN:
9780871404589 (hbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY McCourt, James | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |