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The Party at Jack's by Thomas Wolfe [UNCORRECTED PROOF] 1995 • University of North Carolina

The Party at Jack's by Thomas Wolfe [UNCORRECTED PROOF] 1995 • University of North Carolina

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The Party at Jack's by Thomas Wolfe edited and with an Introduction by Suzanne Stutman and John L. Idol. J.

ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF [1995] UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA

Rare Uncorrected Page Proof.  [Pre-publication]

Book is in excellent condition.   

Like new with minor shelf wear.

In the summer of 1937, Thomas Wolfe was in the North Carolina mountains revising a piece about a party and subsequent fire at the Park Avenue penthouse apartment of the fictional Esther and Frederick Jack. He wrote to his agent, Elizabeth Nowell, 'I think it is now a single thing, as much a single thing as anything I've ever written.' Abridged and edited versions of the story were published twice, as a novella in Scribner's Monthly (May 1939) and as part of You Can't Go Home Again (1940).

Now Suzanne Stutman and John Idol have worked from manuscript sources at Harvard University to reconstruct The Party at Jack's as outlined by Wolfe before his death. Here, in its untruncated state, Wolfe's novella affords a significant glimpse of a Depression-era New York inhabited by Wall Street wheelers and dealers and the theatrical and artistic elite. Wolfe describes the Jacks and their social circle with lavish attention to mannerisms and to clothing, furnishings, and other trappings of wealth and privilege. The sharply drawn contrast between the decadence of the party-goers and the struggles of the working classes in the streets below reveals Wolfe's gifts as both a writer and a sharp social critic.
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