num_pages: 224
description: Konwicki careens purposefully from private history (his vices, obsessive Lithuanian reveries, and advancing old age) to a time capsule of cultural to portraits of the artists, writers, actors, and film directors who accounted for the explosive burst of creative activity in Poland after the war. His tone can be mischievous, cantankerous, or despairing, but also unexpectedly touching.
language: English
title: The New World Avenue and Vicinity
titlecomplete: The New World Avenue and Vicinity
ratings_count: 34
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux