The sugar mile / Glyn Maxwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maxwell, Glyn, 1962-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

140 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Summary:

When Glyn Maxwell steps into an uptown Manhattan bar a few days before September 11, 2001, he is confronted by Joseph Stone, a barstool regular. It has been almost exactly sixty-one years since London's "Black Saturday," the start of the worst of the Blitz during World War II. Joe is a survivor of the bombing. His story brings his lost neighbors back in order to share the terror and the peculiar beauty blooming in the chaos of their last days. Raul, the bartender, interrupts to brag about New York's wonders--just as we know the city faces its own catastrophic moment in history. Maxwell's "The Nerve was declared "one of the most enjoyable books of the year" by the "New York Times Book Review. The Sugar Mile again proves that Maxwell is a poet "you read again and again for the same reason you play a favorite tune over and over: for the sheer pleasure" ("Philadelphia Inquirer).

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0618562435

OCLC:

57286023