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The Downtown Book : The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984

Ghost Town : Tales Of Manhattan Then And Now

Before You Know Kindness : A Novel

  • Before You Know Kindness : A Novel
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    Chris Bohjalian
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    Book, 1st ed, Shaye Areheart Books, 2004
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    Before You Know Kindness is smart, first-rate storytelling.??Richard Russo, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls ?Once again, Chris Bohjalian dares to tackle the complexities?and complacencies?of modern society at its most vulnerable spot, where the personal clashes with the political, where the private is forced to go public. And once again, he forges a drama that will keep his readers on the edge of their seats…perhaps their conscience as well.??Julia Glass, winner of the National Book Award for Three Junes ?Chris Bohjalian?s magnificent new novel, Before You Know Kindness, is the best work of fiction I?ve read about an American family since Amy Tan?s The Joy Luck Club. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PS3552.O495 B44 2004  AVAILABLE

New York City : An Outsider’s Inside View

Bruiser

  • Bruiser
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    Ian Chorão
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    Book, Atria, 2003
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    After spending another morning hiding in the clothes hamper eavesdropping on his miserable parents, Bruiser escapes to the open world outside. Overwhelmed by the pain and confusion of a troubled home life — his father is remote and given to irrational rages, his mother is undone by stifled artistic aspirations — Bruiser takes to the open road with Darla, a ten-year-old kindred spirit who lives across the alleyway. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PS3603.H675 B78 2003  AVAILABLE

Manhattan Monologues

The Nanny Diaries : A Novel

  • The Nanny Diaries : A Novel
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    Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
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    Book, 1st ed, St. Martin’s Press, 2002
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    Struggling to graduate from NYU and afford her microscopic studio apartment, Nanny takes a position caring for the only son of the wealthy X family. When the Xs marriage begins to disintegrate, Nanny ends up involved way beyond the bounds of human decency or good taste. The Nanny Diaries deftly skewers the manner in which America’s over-privileged raise les petites over-privileged-as if grooming them for a Best in Show competition. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PS3613.C575 N36 2002  AVAILABLE
     (UPPER LEVEL)  PS3613.C575 N36 2002 c.2 AVAILABLE

Old Money

  • Old Money
  • Attribution

    Wendy Wasserstein
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    Book, 1st ed, Harcourt, 2002
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    A dinner party in an ornate mansion on the fashionable Upper East Side of Manhattan provides the scene for this witty and incisive play. In this dance of rich storytelling and social commentary, it becomes strikingly clear that while old money has become new, little else has changed over the years. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PS3573.A798 O43 2002  AVAILABLE

Sunday, Monday, And Always

  • Sunday, Monday, And Always
  • Attribution

    Dawn Powell ; introduction and further selection by Tim Page
  • Publication Details

    Book, Rev. ed., 1st pbk. ed, Steerforth Press, 1999
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    IN ADDITION TO THE novels and the diaries that have won her posthumous acclaim, Dawn Powell wrote hundreds of short stories over the course of half a century. This new, expanded edition of Sunday, Monday, and Always includes four additional short pieces written after the original collection was printed. Sunday, Monday, and Always promises to introduce Powell’s many admirers to a new facet of her extraordinary talent. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PS3531.O936 S86 1999  AVAILABLE

Good Hair : A Novel

Manhattan, When I Was Young

Terrible Honesty : Mongrel Manhattan In The 1920s

All The Days And Nights : The Collected Stories Of William Maxwell

Sexual Violence : Our War Against Rape