The Blizzard Party

A Novel

The Blizzard Party
Jack Livings
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Trade Paperback
h219 x 140mm - 416pg
22 Feb 2022 US
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9781250829665
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A panoramic novel set in New York City during the catastrophic blizzard of February 1978On the night of February 6, 1978, a catastrophic nor' easter struck the city of New York. On that night, in a penthouse in the Upper West Side' s stately Apelles, a crowd gathered for a wild party. And on that night, Mr. Albert Haynes Caldwell-a partner emeritus at Swank, Brady & Plescher; Harvard class of ' 26; father of three; widower; atheist; and fiscal conservative-hatched a plan to fake a medical emergency and toss himself into the Hudson River, where he would drown. In the eye of this storm: Hazel Saltwater, age six. The strange events of that night irrevocably altered many lives, but none more than hers. The Blizzard Party is Hazel' s reconstruction of that night, an exploration of love, language, conspiracy, auditory time travel, and life after death. Cinematic, with a vast cast of characters and a historical scope that spans World War II Poland, the lives of rich and powerful Manhattanites in the late 1970' s, and the enduring effects of 9/11, Jack Livings' s The Blizzard Party is an epic novel in the form of a final farewell.
[A] brilliant debut novel . . . Livings calls to mind the work of Michael Chabon as he brings insight into the way events and circumstances shape his characters' lives. This is one to savor. --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)[A] first novel that might be called a detour de force: sprawling, discursive, loose-limbed (and impressive) . . . Livings' s nearest model may be the doorstop-sized novels of Tom Wolfe . . . and this book is similarly digressive, maximalist, and prone to old-fashioned manipulations of sentiment. Livings may not quite have Wolfe' s journalistic chops, but he' s a far more skillful and empathetic novelist, and what seems moralistic and preening in Wolfe' s books reads here mostly as playful and nimble. --KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review)[An] ambitious debut . . . [The Blizzard Party] features moments of brilliance, especially in the dialogue and the surprising connections. A literary feast. --BOOKLIST
Jack Livings is author of the short story collection The Dog, which was awarded the 2015 PEN / Robert W. Bingham Prize and the Rome Prize for Literature. His first novel, The Blizzard Party, will be published in winter 2021
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781250829665
Published: 22 Feb 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: St Martin's Press
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 219mm
Width: 140mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 416

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