Who Sleeps With Katz - Hardcover

McEwen, Todd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1862076138 ISBN 13: 9781862076136

Publisher: Granta Books, 2003

Synopsis

A witty, poignant tribute to New York City follows the musings of a man who has just learned he has lung cancer as he haunts the streets of his chosen city, each block bringing with it memories of people, food, friendship, and romance.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"Who Sleeps with Katz begins mid-rant, apropos for this year's quintessential New York novel: the city revealed in all its luscious public babble, "that old mental capital" constructed over years of urban wanderings. The doomy premise—radio announcer MacK spends the day walking to a downtown rendezvous, where he'll reveal his just-learned terminal lung-cancer diagnosis to bosom friend Isidor—is borne aloft by McEwen's comic genius. Who Sleeps With Katz expounds on the snacks, smokes, and streets of this our town—an endlessly inventive entertainment for those of us fatally in the know." --Village Voice 25 Favorite Books of 2003

From the Inside Flap:

"A classic in the way of books that spread like a rumor, of books that you read and, years after they appear, find others who've read them, too, thinking that no one else has even heard of them...it is not only one of the great New York novels, it's also one of the few novels that can be reasonably called "Joycean." --Charles Taylor, Salon

About this edition

• Publisher: Granta Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1862076138
• ISBN 13: 9781862076136
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288