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Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in Seventies New York

Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in Seventies New York

Wolcott, James

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ISBN10: 0767930622
ISBN13: 9780767930628
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Oct 2 2012
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.43 Depth: 7.96
Language: English

From one of our most admired (and feared) cultural critics, a memoir that captures all the gritty, grubby glamour of New York in the awful/wonderful Seventies.

In the autumn of 1972, a very young and green James Wolcott arrived in New York from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no idea what was about to hit him. Landing at a time of accelerating municipal squalor and, paradoxically, gathering cultural energy in all spheres as Downtown became a category of art and life unto itself, he embarked upon his sentimental education, seventies New York style. This portrait of a critic as a young man is also a rollicking, acutely observant portrait of a legendary time and place. Mixing grit and glitter in just the right proportions, suffused with affection for the talented and sometimes half-crazed denizens of the scene, it will make readers long for a time when you really could get mugged around here.

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