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London, Picador, 1988, 16mo brossura con copertina illustrata a colori, pp. (8)-288 con 31 illustrazioni f.t. e numerosi disegni (di Tony Wright) in nero n.t. (Tracce d'umido nelle prime pagine).
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About the Author
Tama Janowitz is the acclaimed author of SLAVES OF NEW YORK and A CERTAIN AGE, both published by Bloomsbury. She lives in New York.
From Publishers Weekly
The author of the bestselling Slaves of New York offers here a less successful effort but an equally sardonic view of the wormy Big Apple, narrated in the stilted voice of Mgungu Yabba Mgungu, self-described as a "brutal and violently ignorant savage, though charming in a primitive way, who was fleeing his wives and 13 children for the charms of a young American, possibly even the Hamptons and the New York Film Festival if everything went well and I played my cards right." Bored and narcissistic heiress Maria Fishburn, a Peace Corps volunteer, scoops up Mgungu, a South Seas purple-skinned cannibal and brings him back to Manhattan to dance at the Museum of Primitive Cultures, marry her and serve as a generally useful conversation piece. Mgungu wanders, picaro-style, the streets of New York and satirizes the natives, from the vapid chic to the Bowery bums. The distinctive device of putting into Mgungu's mouth arch descriptions of creamy pink and puce art deco home decors or of civilized small talk ("I realized that what I was bearing witness to was that thing known as innuendo") waxes tiresome and self-conscious. With her unexplained plot gaps and inclusion of photos that feature herself, the late Andy Warhol and other hip folk, Janowitz manipulates her readers as surely as the hapless Mgungu is used by the depraved criminals who swarm the all-consuming jungle that is New York. Major ad/promo.
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- PublisherCrown (1987).
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0330304240
- ISBN 13 9780330304245
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages287
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