Nirvana on Ninth Street
By: Susan Sherman ; afterword by Rona L. Holub ; photographs by Colleen McKay
Publisher: Wings Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: San Antonio, Texas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781609404079
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Set in the 1960s and 70s, Nirvana on Ninth Street is loosely based on residents who lived on and near Ninth Street between Avenues B and C in Manhattan, in what is now known as the East Village, during an extraordinary period when the area was a mecca of political radicalism and avant-garde poetry, music, and art. Rachel, a wholly fictitious character, ties the vignettes together. She is a woman who lives largely in a world of her own creation, remembering people from her past who live once again through her imagination. This book is the theater of the absurd, a comedy of errors, and brutal realism all rolled into one delightful, poignant, and sometimes tragic fantasy.
Table of contents: title: Ninth Street & Avenue B --; title: Solomon --; title: Caroline --; title: A little night muysic --; title: Rachel goes shopping --; title: Ninth Street tries to get a word in edgewise --; title: A collector, of sorts --; title: Mirror, mirror --; title: The secret hearts of clocks --; title: Mr. Groan --; title: Passion & peace --; title: The magician & the poet --; title: The party --; title: The end of an era --; title: Rachel says goodbye.