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- ISBN 9781913512446
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jan 2024
- Publisher: Peninsula Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In these delightful, melancholy prose sketches Maeve Brennan goes in pursuit of the ordinary, taking us on a tour of the cheap hotels, unassuming restaurants, and crowded streets of New York City.
Brennan presents herself as the long-winded lady, solitary wanderer and wry observer of the human comedy. Whether she is riding the subway, failing to eat broccoli in a deserted restaurant, or watching lovers quarrel in Washington Square, Brennan manages to capture the wavering spectacle of the metropolis with an uncanny precision that makes these slight essays at once hallucinatory and hyperreal.
Originally written for The New Yorker between 1954 and 1981 and presented here in full with a new introduction by Sinéad Gleeson, these pieces reveal Maeve Brennan to be one of the twentieth century’s most accomplished documentarians of city life, and one of its finest essayists.
Maeve Brennan was born in Dublin on 6 January 1917 and moved with her family to American in 1934. She later settled in Manhattan and joined the staff of The New Yorker. The long-winded lady columns were initially published anonymously in the magazine. They were first collected in book form in 1969, the same year in which Maeve’s first collection of stories, In and Out of Never-Never Land, was published. The final long-winded lady column appeared in The New Yorker in January 1981.
