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Laddar... Shimmer (1998)av Sarah Schulman
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Set against the backdrop of post-World War II New York City, three people--Sylvia Golubowsky, an aspiring reporter waiting for a big break; Austin Van Cleeve, a gossip columnist who wields a wicked pen; and Cal Byfield, a cook who is determined to create a Negro theater on Broadway--cross paths in t Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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The book follows the intersection of several lives in NYC in the 1950s, narrated from three main perspectives: Sylvia Golubowsky, an aspiring reporter; Austin Van Cleeve, a conservative society reporter; and N. Tammi Byfield, granddaugher of Cal Byfield, a playwright struggling to have his work recognized beyond the category of "Negro theater." Each character tells their story against the backdrop of the anti-Communist hearings in Washington, and each approaches politics with varying degrees of naivete or sophistication, of personal and public.
I read this sporadically, over a couple of weeks, and should have actually focused more intently on it; some of the details of the McCarthy hearings escaped me upon returning to the book, so found myself a bit confused in parts. The details of NYC in the 1950s are well-evoked, and Schulman weaves in the concrete details of the 3 characters' very different lives in a vivid way. ( )