Lasting city : the anatomy of nostalgia / James McCourt.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Liveright Pub. Corporation, [2013]Edition: 1st edDescription: 323 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780871404589 (hbk.)
- 0871404583 (hbk.)
- 813/.54 B 23
- PS3563.C3448 Z46 2013
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Book | Stonewall Biography | B McCourt MCC 2013 | 1 | Available | autographed by author | 198291 | ||
Book | Stonewall Storage | B McCourt MCC 2013 | 2 box #43 | Storage | autographed by author with personal note | 198292 |
Includes index.
Enjoined by his dying mother to "tell everything," James McCourt was liberated by this deathbed wish to do just that. The result is this book, a gripping, uniquely McCourt invention: an operatic recollection that braids a nostalgic portrait of old-Irish New York with a boy'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--a kaleidoscopic unraveling of time.
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