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City for Conquest (Paperback)
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City for Conquest (Paperback)
Series: Lost Urban Classics
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby still captivates readers
with its vision of 1920s New York as a city of infinite potential,
where ambition and defeat live hand in hand. This sentiment is
captured, with even greater acuity, in the pages of Aben Kandel's
nearly forgotten masterpiece of urban life, City for Conquest
(1936). The source of the classic 1940s James Cagney film of the
same name, this panoramic New York novel captures the complex
patterns of city life, vividly evoking a metropolis of dreams and
nightmares. Kandel portrays a volatile city inhabited by the
aristocrat, the criminal, the idealist, the bohemian, the driven,
the entrapped, and the impoverished, all equally striving "to make
a dent in this town." The city itself is booming, its new
constructions callously built on destruction, supplanting with
equal disdain the slums of Brooklyn and the farm fields of the
Bronx. This feverish microcosm of humanity inhabits a world of
immense inequality where "six blocks from Wall Street, people
haven't got a dime, six blocks from duplex apartments, people live
in hovels" and "between the scarlet sore and the apple of the eye
there lay a thick eyebrow of indifference." A literary triumph in
the tradition of Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and
John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer, and out of print for far too
long, City for Conquest is the inaugural work of fiction in
Transaction's new Lost Urban Classics series.
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