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Love Is Like Park Avenue

by Alvin Levin

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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.
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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.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780811217996
Author:
Levin, Alvin
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Preface by:
Ashbery, John
Preface:
Ashbery, John
Editor:
Reidel, James
Author:
Reidel, James
Author:
Ashbery, John
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
Stories (single author)
Subject:
New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs.
Subject:
City and town life - New York (State) -
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
2009
Publication Date:
20091031
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
8 x 5.2 x 0.7 in 0.535 lb
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