{"product_id":"ghosts-of-new-york-9781949199963","title":"Ghosts of New York","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A masterful tapestry.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Richard Price, author of \u003ci\u003eLush Life\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A marvelous novel.\" --Rabih Alameddine, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Angel of History\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAn Unnecessary Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Jim Lewis sees like a photographer and writes like an avenging angel.\" --Sally Mann, author of \u003ci\u003eHold Still: A Memoir with Photographs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A beautifully vulnerable work of fiction.\" --Jardine Libaire, author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Fur\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ghosts of New York is a novel in which the laws of time and space have been subtly suspended. It interweaves four strands: a photographer newly returned to the neighborhood where she grew up, after years spent living overseas; a foundling raised on 14th Street; a graduate student, his romantic partner, and his best friend entangled in a set of relationships with far-reaching personal and political repercussions; and a shopkeeper suffering from first love late in life. Mixing prophecy, history, and a hint of speculative fiction, its stories are bound together even as they are propelled into stranger territory. And undergirding it all is a song, which appears, disappears, and then resurfaces. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhosts of New York\u003c\/i\u003e explores complex lives through indelible renderings of settings--a bar, a night market, a recording studio--that alternate between familiar and unsettling. The work of a celebrated novelist and veteran of the art, film, and music scenes in New York and Austin (described as \"a rare talent\" by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \"a powerful literary voice\" by Jeffrey Eugenides), this novel will immediately absorb readers intrigued by creative people and the places that sustain and challenge them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e West Virginia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949199963\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300","brand":"Jim Lewis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39329037189301,"sku":"9781949199963","price":19.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b916421b-ad4d-4ed4-a5c3-4b8e4aef3a56.jpg?v=1614690116","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ghosts-of-new-york-9781949199963","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}