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Lucking Out

By James Wolcott

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Lucking Out

By James Wolcott

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From one of our most admired (and feared) cultural critics, a memoir that captures all the gritty, grubby glamour of New York in the awful/wonderful Seventies. In the autumn of 1972, a very young and green James Wolcott arrived in New York from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no idea what was about to hit him. Landing at a time of accelerating municipal squalor and, paradoxically, gathering cultural energy in all spheres as "Downtown" became a category of art and life unto itself, he embarked upon his sentimental education, seventies New York style. This portrait of a critic as a young man is also a rollicking, acutely observant portrait of a legendary time and place. Mixing grit and glitter in just the right proportions, suffused with affection for the talented and sometimes half-crazed denizens of the scene, it will make readers long for a time when you really could get mugged around here.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
274
Release Date:
2012-10-02
Publication Date:
2012-10-02
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0767930622
ISBN13:
9780767930628
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
346 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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