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- catalog abstract "In the summer of 1937, Thomas Wolfe was in the North Carolina mountains revising a piece about a party and subsequent fire at the Park Avenue penthouse apartment of the fictional Esther and Frederick Jack. He wrote to his agent, Elizabeth Nowell, "I think it is now a single thing, as much a single thing as anything I've ever written." Wolfe's novella affords a significant glimpse of a Depression era New York inhabited by Wall Street wheelers and dealers and the theatrical and artistic elite. Wolfe describes the Jacks and their social circle with lavish attention to mannerisms, clothing, furnishings, and other trappings of wealth and privilege, and he spreads before readers a table groaning with sumptuous food. The sharply drawn contrast between the decadence of the party-goers and the struggles of the working classes in the streets below reveals Wolfe's gifts as both a writer and a sharp social critic.".
- catalog contributor b7487840.
- catalog contributor b7487841.
- catalog contributor b7487842.
- catalog coverage "New York (N.Y.) Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs 20th century Fiction.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "In the summer of 1937, Thomas Wolfe was in the North Carolina mountains revising a piece about a party and subsequent fire at the Park Avenue penthouse apartment of the fictional Esther and Frederick Jack. He wrote to his agent, Elizabeth Nowell, "I think it is now a single thing, as much a single thing as anything I've ever written." Wolfe's novella affords a significant glimpse of a Depression era New York inhabited by Wall Street wheelers and dealers and the theatrical and artistic elite. Wolfe describes the Jacks and their social circle with lavish attention to mannerisms, clothing, furnishings, and other trappings of wealth and privilege, and he spreads before readers a table groaning with sumptuous food. The sharply drawn contrast between the decadence of the party-goers and the struggles of the working classes in the streets below reveals Wolfe's gifts as both a writer and a sharp social critic.".
- catalog extent "xxxii, 242 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Party at Jack's.".
- catalog identifier "080782206X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Party at Jack's.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Party at Jack's.".
- catalog spatial "New York (N.Y.) Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs 20th century Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "New York (State) New York".
- catalog subject "813/.52 20".
- catalog subject "Apartment houses Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Apartment houses New York (State) New York Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Entertaining Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Entertaining New York (State) New York Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Fires Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Fires New York (State) New York Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3545.O337 P37 1995".
- catalog title "The party at Jack's / Thomas Wolfe ; edited and with an introduction by Suzanne Stutman & John L. Idol, Jr.".
- catalog type "Didactic fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "Historical fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".