Saint Mazie
Author(s): Jami Attenberg
Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and feisty, she runs The Venice, the famed movie theatre in the rundown Bowery district of New York City. She spends her days taking tickets, chatting with drunks and eccentrics, and chasing out the troublemakers. After closing up, the nights are her own, and she fills them with romance and booze aplenty - even during Prohibition. When the Great Depression hits, and homelessness soars, Mazie opens The Venice to those in need, giving them shelter and dimes for food and booze, and earning the nickname 'Saint Mazie'. Inspired by Joseph Mitchell's essay about Mazie in Up in the Old Hotel, acclaimed author Jami Attenberg's novel honours an extraordinary life and heralds a completely original approach to writing historical fiction. Weaving together fictionalised diaries, writings and interviews, Attenberg has constructed an utterly convincing portrait of Mazie Philips, which is also a deeply moving portrait of New York as it passed through the First World War, Prohibition, the boom of the '20s, and then the terrible depression of the '30s.
Product Information
An ingenious novel that imagines the life and times of Mazie Philips, a real-life saint from New York City, by the highly acclaimed author of The Middlesteins
Jami Attenberg is the author of a story collection, Instant Love, and the novels, The Kept Man and The Melting Season. Her last book, The Middlesteins, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and was published in nine countries. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her at www.jamiattenberg.com and follow her @jamiattenberg.
General Fields
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- : Profile Books Ltd
- : Serpent's Tail
- : 0.361
- : 01 July 2015
- : 216mm X 135mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 July 2015
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jami Attenberg
- : Paperback
- : Jul-15
- : 336
