Rich in subtle human insight, full of poignant and often funny portraits, and vivid with a sense of place, James Wood’s Upstate is a powerful, intense, beautiful novel.
This inspiring collection of compelling and characterful interiors will have city and country dwellers alike dreaming of carving out a personal haven far beyond the big city.
" So begins Upstate, a powerful story told through letters between seventeen-year-old Antonio and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Natasha, set in the 1990's in New York.
Reprint of Wilson's 1971 collection originally published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Contains a new foreword by Richard Costa (English, Texas AandM). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Historical recollections of life in upstate New York from Edmund Wilson, one of America's preeminent literary critics of the twentieth century. “What I have written . . . shows the gradual but steady expiration of the world of New York ...