Description
| Product ID: | 9781913512446 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Long-Winded Lady |
| Authors: | Author: Maeve Brennan |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In these delightful, melancholy prose sketches Maeve Brennan goes in pursuit of the ordinary, taking us on a tour of the cheap hotels, unassuming restaurants, and crowded streets of New York City. ''It was a weekday, an ordinary morning, business hours drawing near, but the evanescent appearance of the square said that anything might be about to happen - an operetta, a harlequinade, a pantomime, a fantasy...'' In these delightful, melancholy prose sketches Maeve Brennan goes in pursuit of the ordinary, taking us on a tour of the cheap hotels, unassuming restaurants, and crowded streets that make up New York City. Brennan presents herself as The Long-Winded Lady, solitary wanderer and wry observer of the human comedy. Whether she is riding the subway, struggling with her broccoli in a restaurant or watching lovers quarrel on Washington Square, Brennan manages to capture the wavering spectacle of the metropolis with an uncanny precision that makes these slight essays at once hallucinatory and hyperreal. Originally written for The New Yorker between 1954 and 1981 and presented here in full with a new introduction by Sinead Gleeson, these pieces reveal Maeve Brennan to be one of the twentieth century''s most accomplished documentarians of city life, and one of its finest essayists. |
| Imprint Name: | Peninsula Press Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Peninsula Press Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-01-25 |