Bandbox

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Humorous, Historical, Literary
Cover of the book Bandbox by Thomas Mallon, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Thomas Mallon ISBN: 9780307824318
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: August 8, 2012
Imprint: Pantheon Language: English
Author: Thomas Mallon
ISBN: 9780307824318
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: August 8, 2012
Imprint: Pantheon
Language: English

From the author of Henry and Clara, a dazzling, hilarious novel that captures the heart and soul of New York in the Jazz Age.

Bandbox is a hugely successful magazine, a glamorous monthly cocktail of 1920s obsessions from the stock market to radio to gangland murder. Edited by the bombastic Jehoshaphat “Joe” Harris, the magazine has a masthead that includes, among many others, a grisly, alliterative crime writer; a shy but murderously determined copyboy; and a burned-out vaudeville correspondent who’s lovesick for his loyal, dewy assistant.

As the novel opens, the defection of Harris’s most ambitious protégé has plunged Bandbox into a death struggle with a new competitor on the newsstand. But there’s more to come: a sabotaged fiction contest, the NYPD vice squad, a subscriber’s kidnapping, and a film-actress cover subject who makes the heroines of Fosse’s Chicago look like the girls next door. While Harris and his magazine careen from comic crisis to make-or-break calamity, the novel races from skyscraper to speakeasy, hops a luxury train to Hollywood, and crashes a buttoned-down dinner with Calvin Coolidge.

Thomas Mallon has given us a madcap and poignant book that brilliantly portrays the gaudiest American decade of them all.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

From the author of Henry and Clara, a dazzling, hilarious novel that captures the heart and soul of New York in the Jazz Age.

Bandbox is a hugely successful magazine, a glamorous monthly cocktail of 1920s obsessions from the stock market to radio to gangland murder. Edited by the bombastic Jehoshaphat “Joe” Harris, the magazine has a masthead that includes, among many others, a grisly, alliterative crime writer; a shy but murderously determined copyboy; and a burned-out vaudeville correspondent who’s lovesick for his loyal, dewy assistant.

As the novel opens, the defection of Harris’s most ambitious protégé has plunged Bandbox into a death struggle with a new competitor on the newsstand. But there’s more to come: a sabotaged fiction contest, the NYPD vice squad, a subscriber’s kidnapping, and a film-actress cover subject who makes the heroines of Fosse’s Chicago look like the girls next door. While Harris and his magazine careen from comic crisis to make-or-break calamity, the novel races from skyscraper to speakeasy, hops a luxury train to Hollywood, and crashes a buttoned-down dinner with Calvin Coolidge.

Thomas Mallon has given us a madcap and poignant book that brilliantly portrays the gaudiest American decade of them all.

More books from Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Cover of the book Arrival (Stories of Your Life MTI) by Thomas Mallon
Cover of the book Dead and Gone by Thomas Mallon
Cover of the book The Weight of a Piano by Thomas Mallon
Cover of the book Children of the Alley by Thomas Mallon
Cover of the book La Casa en Mango Street by Thomas Mallon
Cover of the book Mi vida querida by Thomas Mallon
Cover of the book The Paranoid Style in American Politics: An Essay by Thomas Mallon
Cover of the book The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later by Thomas Mallon
Cover of the book By Blood We Live by Thomas Mallon
Cover of the book Midnight Sun by Thomas Mallon
Cover of the book Fall of Man in Wilmslow by Thomas Mallon
Cover of the book One of Ours by Thomas Mallon
Cover of the book Titans of History by Thomas Mallon
Cover of the book Baudelaire: Poems by Thomas Mallon
Cover of the book The Sandcastle Girls by Thomas Mallon
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy