Nest of Ninnies Contributor(s): Ashbery, John (Author), Schuyler, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 1564785203 ISBN-13: 9781564785206 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2008016103 |
Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive) |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 7.9" (0.55 lbs) 191 pages |
Themes: - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Geographic Orientation - New York - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "James Schuyler and I began writing A Nest of Ninnies purely by chance," writes John Ashbery in his new introduction to this classic of American comic fiction. "We were in a car being driven by the young cameraman, Harrison Starr, with his father as a passenger in the front seat... Jimmy said, 'Why don't we write a novel?' And how do we do that, I asked. 'It's easy--you write the first line, ' was his reply." The result is one of the strangest and most exuberant experiments in American literary history, a verbal tour de force of suburban Americana. First published in 1969, A Nest of Ninnies is a true gem-in-the-rough, the decades-long collaborative project from two of the great poetic minds of the twentieth century. |