Ebook {Epub PDF} Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg

 · In fact, the real Mazie Phillips-Gordon is still asked for by men and women in New York, fifty years after her death, not because she’s a silent picture film star or beauty queen, but because Mazie had a huge heart that left a lasting impression. Mazie’s Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. In Jami Attenberg’s historical novel Saint Mazie (), set during New York City’s Jazz Age, a party girl starts a diary after she begins working behind the ticket counter of a local movie theater. Critics praise the book for its colorful characters and its bold heart. Attenberg is a popular author who writes primarily for adult audiences.  · The story of a Jazz Age party girl who winds up in a cage as a ticket-taker in a Depression-era Lower East Side movie theater, Jami Attenberg’s “Saint Mazie” is Author: Marjorie Ingall.

Jami Attenberg is the author of a story collection, Instant Love, and four novels: The Kept Man, The Melting Season, and The Middlesteins, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and Saint bltadwin.ru has contributed essays and criticism to the New York Times, Real Simple, Elle, the Washington Post, and many other publications. UK website The Pool has an excerpt of Saint Mazie, the much-lauded new novel by Jami Attenberg, author of the New York Times Bestselling The bltadwin.ru've got not just one chapter, but the first five from this book of historical fiction about legendary "Queen of the Bowery" Mazie Phillips—an irreverent but kind figure known for handing out money and advice to men on the skids in. Published. Summer Neighbor, sister, lover—these are the people Jami Attenberg dreamed of chatting with while writing her new novel, Saint Mazie (Grand Central, ). The friends and family of Mazie Phillips Gordon, however, are no longer of this earth. She was the proprietor of and ticket taker for the Venice Theater in Manhattan's.

The story of a Jazz Age party girl who winds up in a cage as a ticket-taker in a Depression-era Lower East Side movie theater, Jami Attenberg’s “Saint Mazie” is full of love and drink and. In her new novel, "Saint Mazie," Jami Attenberg imagines the inner life of Mazie Phillips-Gordon, "Queen of the Bowery." (Ulf Andersen, Getty). Inspired by the life of a woman who was profiled in Joseph Mitchell's classic Up in the Old Hotel, Saint Mazie is infused with Jami Attenberg's signature wit, bravery, and heart. Mazie's rise to "sainthood"--and her irrepressible spirit--is unforgettable.