City for Conquest
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781351313360
Subjects: Fiction
Description: "F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby still captivates readers with its vision of 1920s New York as a city of infinite potential, where ambition and defeat live hand in hand. This sentiment is captured, with even greater acuity, in the pages of Aben Kandel's nearly forgotten masterpiece of urban life, City for Conquest (1936). The source of the classic 1940s James Cagney film of the same name, this panoramic New York novel captures the complex patterns of city life, vividly evoking a metropolis of dreams and nightmares. Kandel portrays a volatile city inhabited by the aristocrat, the criminal, the idealist, the bohemian, the driven, the entrapped, and the impoverished, all equally striving "to make a dent in this town." The city itself is booming, its new constructions callously built on destruction, supplanting with equal disdain the slums of Brooklyn and the farm fields of the Bronx. This feverish microcosm of humanity inhabits a world of immense inequality where "six blocks from Wall Street, people haven't got a dime, six blocks from duplex apartments, people live in hovels" and "between the scarlet sore and the apple of the eye there lay a thick eyebrow of indifference."A literary triumph in the tradition of Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer, and out of print for far too long, City for Conquest is the inaugural work of fiction in Transaction's new Lost Urban Classics series."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, 1 Bouquet of the Boroughs  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 1 Bouquet of the Boroughs  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 2 2  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 3 3  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 4 4  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 5 5  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 6 6  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 7 7  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 8 8  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 9 9  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 10 10  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 11 11  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 12 12  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 13 13  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 14 14  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 15 15  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 16 16  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: part, 2 Fruit of the Stone  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 17 17  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 18 18  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 19 19  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 20 20  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 21 21  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 22 22  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 23 23  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 24 24  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 25 25  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 26 26  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 27 27  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 28 28  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 29 29  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 30 30  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 31 31  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 32 32  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 33 33  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 34 34  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 35 35  -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart; title: chapter 36 36 -- Aben Kandel Leonard Quart.