Love Is Like Park Avenue - Softcover

Levin, Alvin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081121799X ISBN 13: 9780811217996

Publisher: New Directions, 2009

Synopsis

Alvin Levin, himself from the Bronx, captured life in the turbulent era of the 1930s in New York City.

The stories are all told by and “outsider artist”, a writer who is never able to finish his long novel yet easily writes these small touching portraits about the poor who, in their dance halls and bars, long to live the high-life of the Park Avenue “swells.” in dance halls, and bars.

About this title

About the Author:

Alvin Levin (b. 1914, Paterson, NJ) studied at City College and Brooklyn Law School. Courted by The New Yorker, New Directions and others, Levin mysteriously disappeared. He died in 1982.

JAMES REIDEL is a poet, translator, editor, and biographer.

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet John Ashbery (1927―2017) translated many French writers, including Alfred Jarry, Pierre Reverdy, and Raymond Roussel. In 2011 he was awarded the National Book Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 081121799X
• ISBN 13: 9780811217996
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Reidel James