{"product_id":"the-long-winded-lady-notes-from-the-new-yorker-9781619027114","title":"The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from the New Yorker","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Maeve Brennan . . . helped put New York back into \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and has written about the city of the sixties with both honesty and affection . . . She is constantly alert, sharp-eyed as a sparrow for the crumbs of human event, the overheard and the glimpsed and the guessed at, that form a solitary city person's least expensive amusement.\" --John Updike, author of \u003ci\u003eRabbit, Run\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan wrote for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e under the pen name \"The Long-Winded Lady.\" Her unforgettable sketches--prose snapshots of life in small restaurants, cheap hotels, and crowded streets of Times Square and the Village--together form a timeless, bittersweet tribute to what she called the \"most reckless, most ambitious, most confused, most comical, the saddest and coldest and most human of cities.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 1969, \u003ci\u003eThe Long-Winded Lady\u003c\/i\u003e is a celebration of one of the twentieth century's most accomplished storytellers and documentarians of city life. As contemporary culture revisits with new appreciation the pioneering female voices of the past century, Maeve Brennan remains a writer whose dazzling work continues to embolden a new generation.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16594818\"\u003eMaeve Brennan\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Counterpoint LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/09\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781619027114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1619027119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMAEVE BRENNAN \u003c\/b\u003eleft Ireland for America in 1934, when she was seventeen. In 1949, she joined the staff of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, to which she contributed reviews, essays, and short stories. Her acclaimed works \u003ci\u003eThe Rose Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Visitor\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Springs of Affection\u003c\/i\u003e are also available from Counterpoint. Maeve Brennan died in 1993 at the age of seventy-six.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Counterpoint LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42710531997933,"sku":"9781619027114","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_57ec6712-1584-41f3-9e84-6b66ea3182e3.jpg?v=1747436703","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-long-winded-lady-notes-from-the-new-yorker-9781619027114","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}