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Love Is Like Park Avenue
by
Alvin Levin,
James Reidel , John Ashbery (Goodreads Author)
Alvin Levin, himself from the Bronx, captured life in the turbulent era of the 1930s in New York City. The stories are all told by an “outsider artist”, a writer who is never able to finish his long novel yet easily writes these small touching portraits about the poor who, in their dance halls and bars, long to live the high-life of the Park Avenue “swells” in dance halls ...more
Paperback, 196 pages
Published
August 27th 2009
by New Directions Publishing Corporation
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One of the finest proletarian novels of the 1930s was Michael Gold's JEWS WITHOUT MONEY; if the recently rediscovered New York writer Alvin Levin had ever finished his projected novel, he could have called it JEWS WITH A LITTLE MONEY. The stories, some mere fragments, collected here portray the frustrated longings of lower-middle-class (or should that be upper-working-class?) Depression-era Jews in the Bronx, Levin's home turf. While other writers of the day imitated Joyce and other modernist ic...more
This is a collection of letters, novel fragments, and short stories by Alvin Levin, a practically unknown American writer. The letters are the real treasure-trove--they're earnest and genuine, and reflect a boastful innocence that is embarrassingly youthful. "I read Henry Miller," Levin wrote in one letter, "and he is good, just as Saroyan is good, but I am better."
This is a perfect gift for failed writers and young men with literary ambitions.
This is a perfect gift for failed writers and young men with literary ambitions.
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