The hanging on Union Square : an American epic / H.T. Tsiang ; edited with an afterword and notes by Floyd Cheung ; introduction by Hua Hsu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsiang, H. T., 1899-1971, author.

Contributor:

Cheung, Floyd, 1969- editor, writer of afterword, writer of added commentary.

Hsu, Hua, 1977- writer of introduction.

Series:

Penguin classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Union Square (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.

Union Square (New York, N.Y.).

New York (State)--New York--Union Square.

Genre:

Novels.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xxi, 211 pages : illustration ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] : Penguin Books, 2019.

Summary:

"It's Depression-era New York, and Mr. Nut, an oblivious American everyman, wants to strike it rich, even if at the moment he's unemployed, with no job prospects in sight. Over the course of a single night, in a narrative that unfolds hour by hour, he meets a cast of strange characters--disgruntled workers at a Communist cafeteria, lecherous old men, sexually exploited women, pesky authors--who eventually convince him to cast off his bourgeois aspirations for upward mobility and become a radical activist. Absurdist, inventive, and suffused with revolutionary fervor, and culminating in a dramatic face-off against capitalist power in the figure of the greedy businessman Mr. System, The Hanging on Union Square is a work of blazing wit and originality. More than eighty years after it was self-published, having been rejected by dozens of baffled publishers, it has become a classic of Asian American literature--a satirical send-up of class politics and capitalism and a shout of populist rage that still resonates today"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

He was grouching

Once in a communist cafeteria

With a temperament of this sort

"No Russian! No Jew!"

Thinking of Mr. wiseguy

If Miss Digger came

"Worse than a capitalist!"

With one glass of water

A feeling of not enough

Out in a no-way-out way

He was poetizing

Before the arrival of an ambulance

A willow in a windy spring

Artist and uniform

Sadistic or capitalistic

"I wouldn't get mad at you"

Miss Digger became miss Picker

A saint takes a commission

He suddenly lost his bureaucratic air

"You! You! You!"

He was satirizing

Roaring and roaring as it went by

He felt that

It was only because

What now? And how!

Which tastes better?

"Time is money"

He looked like a man

Lucky, however

A monkey ran away from the zoo

He was philosophizing

A man walked on his hands

Untie the tie

It and she

"Masses are asses!"

"What an inspiration!"

Size and direction

"Strike me pink!"

"You can call me bastard!"

The hanging on Union Square.

Notes:

"First published in the United States of America by H.T. Tsiang 1935. Edition with an introduction by Hua Hsu and an afterword and notes by Floyed Cheung pulished by Kaya Press 2013."

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Tsiang, H. T., 1899-1971, author. Hanging on Union Square

ISBN:

9780143134022

0143134027

OCLC:

1089881850