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12%OFFThomas Vinciguerra - Cast of Characters - 9780393240030 - V9780393240030
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Cast of Characters

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Description for Cast of Characters Hardcover. The professional and personal lives of the pioneers of an enduring magazine. Num Pages: 464 pages, 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 165 x 38. Weight in Grams: 820.

From its birth in 1925 to the early days of the Cold War, The New Yorker slowly but surely took hold as America’s most prestigious, entertaining and informative general-interest periodical. In Cast of Characters, Thomas Vinciguerra paints a portrait of the magazine’s cadre of charming, driven, troubled brilliant writers and editors.

Many of these characters became legends in their own right but Vinciguerra also shows how, as a group, The New Yorker’s inner circle brought forth a profound transformation in how life was perceived, interpreted, written about and published in America. Cast of Characters is the most revealing and entertaining ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393240030
SKU
V9780393240030
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-16

About Thomas Vinciguerra
Thomas Vinciguerra is a founding editor of The Week magazine and a regular contributor to the New York Times. He is the editor of Conversations with Elie Wiesel and Backward Ran Sentences: The Best of Wolcott Gibbs from The New Yorker. He lives on Long Island.

Reviews for Cast of Characters
"Exuberant...elegantly conjures an evocative group dynamic."
Sam Roberts - New York Times "Fresh and invigorating...it's to Vinciguerra's great credit that he manages to avoid both condescension and hagiography in writing about the flawed, brilliant people behind it."
Kate Tuttle - Boston Globe "A fresh view... Ably captures the antic spirit of the New Yorker's first heyday."
Kirkus ... Read more

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