Bibliograph

Lasting City, the anatomy of nostalgia, James McCourt

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Lasting City, the anatomy of nostalgia, James McCourt

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lasting City

Oclc number

857141271

Responsibility statement

James McCourt

Sub title

the anatomy of nostalgia

Summary

Enjoined by his dying mother to "tell everything," James McCourt was liberated by this deathbed wish to do just that. The result is Lasting City, a gripping, uniquely McCourt invention: an operatic recollection that braids a nostalgic portrait of old-Irish New York with a boy's funny, gutter-snipe precocity and hardly innocent coming-of-age in the 1940s and '50s. A literary outlaw in the poetic tradition of Verlaine and Baudelaire, McCourt tells his own story, his mother's, his family's, and that of a lost New York, the lasting city. While ostensibly an account of the author's first seven years, Lasting City expands into a philosophical exploration of memory, perhaps as daring a statement on perception as anything since Faulkner--a kaleidoscopic unraveling of time

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