Research Catalog

Title

The long-winded lady : notes from the New Yorker / Maeve Brennan.

Author

Brennan, Maeve.

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

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Details

Description

xi, 268 pages; 21 cm

Alternative Title

long winded lady

Subjects

• New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs
• Brennan, Maeve > Homes and haunts > New York (State) > New York

Note

• "A Mariner book."

Contents

• They Were Both about Forty -- A Mysterious Parade of Men -- The Solitude of Their Expression -- On the A Train -- Balzac's Favorite Food -- The Dark Elevator -- Broccoli -- A Shoe Story -- In the Grosvenor Bar -- A Chinese Fortune -- From the Hotel Earle -- The Farmhouse That Moved Downtown -- A Lost Lady -- The Flower Children -- Wild Money -- Lovers in Washington Square -- I Wish for a Little Street Music -- Jobs -- Little Birds in Torture -- A Young Lady with a Lap -- The Morning After -- The Two Protesters -- Lost Overtures -- The Man Who Combed His Hair -- The Good Adano -- A Busload of Scolds -- Movie Stars at Large -- Faraway Places Near Here -- The Traveler -- Sixth Avenue Shows Its True Self -- I Look Down from the Windows of This Old Broadway Hotel -- Mr. Sam Bidner and His Saxophone -- The Ailanthus, Our Back-Yard Tree -- A Little Boy Crying -- A Young Man with a Menu -- Painful Choice -- The New Girls on West Forty-ninth Street -- The View Chez Paul --
• The Sorry Joker -- Giving Money in the Street -- Bad Tiny -- An Irritating Stranger -- The Cheating of Philippe -- West Eighth Street Has Changed and Changed and Changed Again -- Ludvik Vaculik -- The Name of Minnie Smith -- Howard's Apartment -- The Last Days of New York City -- Lessons and Lessons and Then More Lessons -- A Snowy Night on West Forty-ninth Street -- A Visitor from California -- Just a Pair of Show-Offs -- On the Island -- Cold Morning -- A Daydream -- A Blessing.

ISBN

0395893631

LCCN

98007925

OCLC

ocm39108552

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries