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New York is a town of more quartiers and arondissements than Paris,
more souks and bazaars than Cairo, a place of havens from
overwhelming energy and of studios where that energy is generated.
Above all else, it is where everyone wants to make a mark. And for
a lot of residents the biggest mark of all is the place they live
in - no matter where that is in the infinite diversity of the
astonishing tumbling ziggurat that is New York. This book looks at
a cross-section of these thrilling spaces for living created by New
Yorkers. Ranging from the great mansions of the Upper East Side to
the Tribeca loft that provides a live-work space for the
high-flying architects of MPA, from the glamour of Kenneth Lane's
Murray Hill apartment to Susan Sheehan's Arts and Crafts haven in
Union Square, from Hamish Bowles's 'tiny Atlantis' in Greenwich
Village to James Fenton's fantasy palace in Harlem, from the ivory
tower that is the Modulightor Building in Midtown Manhattan to
Miranda Brooks's 'garden in the city' in Brooklyn, this is a visual
and literary feast of the marvellous houses and apartments of New
York.
In the pieces brought together in Writing Home, Polly Devlin OBE,
most bewitching of writers, covers subjects that range over her
whole life and thought. She writes about places: about her
childhood deep in the countryside of Northern Ireland (where, in
the late 1950s, the first electricity poles looked 'literally out
of place'); her sudden transition, at the age of twenty-one, to
Swinging Sixties London, where she worked for Vogue and became very
much part of the scene (although - 'it's like being a provincial at
Versailles'), on to New York, back to London, then to the English
countryside, and to Paris, Venice, the world over - and always back
to Ireland, London and New York. She writes about the people she
has known, among them Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Mick
Jagger, Peggy Guggenheim, Diana Vreeland ('as fantastical as a
unicorn'), Jean Shrimpton ('she looks as though she sleeps in
cathedral pews and sucks artichoke hearts for sustenance'),
Princess Margaret (who came to dinner and did the washing up,
'which I gabbled she didn't need to - she looked at me frostily and
the royal hands went back into the Fairy Liquid'). And she writes
about the issues that have preoccupied her: about emigration,
feminism ('I grew up in a society where men were fundamental and
women were secondary'), reading, writing, collecting, shopping,
houses, dogs, rooks, hares, dreams, friendship and the kindness of
strangers; about daughters and mothers; and about wishes . . .
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Devoted Ladies (Paperback)
Molly Keane; Introduction by Polly Devlin
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Jessica and Jane have been living together for six months. They are
devoted friends--or are they? Jessica loves her friend with the
cruelty of total possessiveness. Jane is rich, silly, and drinks
rather too many brandy-and-sodas. Watching from the sidelines,
Sylvester regrets that she should be loved and bullied and perhaps
even murdered by that frightful Jessica, but decides it is none of
his business. When the Irish gentleman George Playfair meets Jane,
however, he thinks otherwise--he entices Jane to Ireland where the
battle for her devotion begins. A studied satire of art deco
decadence and louche behavior, "Devoted Ladies" is a sharp and
glittering satire on female love.
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The Rising Tide (Paperback)
Molly Keane; Introduction by Polly Devlin
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This is the story of one glorious gothic mansion, Garonlea, and two
rather different women who would be Queen. Lady Charlotte
French-McGrath has successfully ruled over her family with an iron
will, until the arrival of Cynthia--beautiful, young, talented,
selfish, and engaged to her son Desmond. Cynthia is a denizen of
the Jazz Age and, on the surface, her life passes in a whirl of
hunting, drinking, and romance. But the ghosts of Garonlea are only
biding their time. They know the source of their power--a secret
handed down through generations.
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