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Bandbox Book
From the author of Henry and Clara, a dazzling, hilarious novel that captures the heart and soul of New York in the Jazz Age.Bandbox is a hugely successful magazine, a glamorous monthly cocktail of 1920s obsessions from the stock market to radio to gangland murder. Edited by the bombastic Jehoshaphat â??Joeâ? Harris, the magazine has a masthead that includes, among many others, a grisly, alliterative crime writer; a shy but murderously determined copyboy; and a burned-out vaudeville correspondent whoâ??s lovesick for his loyal, dewy assistant.As the novel opens, the defection of Harrisâ??s most ambitious protégé has plunged Bandbox into a death struggle with a new competitor on the newsstand. But thereâ??s more to come: a sabotaged fiction contest, the NYPD vice squad, a subscriberâ??s kidnapping, and a film-actress cover subject who makes the heroines of Fosseâ??s Chicago look like the girls next door. While Harris and his magazine careen from comic crisis to make-or-break calamity, the novel races from skyscraper to speakeasy, hops a luxury train to Hollywood, and crashes a buttoned-down dinner with Calvin Coolidge.Thomas Mallon has given us a madcap and poi-gnant book that brilliantly portrays the gaudiest American decade of them all.Read More
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- 0375421165
- 9780375421167
- Thomas Mallon
- 1 January 2004
- Pantheon Books
- Hardcover (Book)
- 320
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