Bandbox: A Novel

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Bandbox: A Novel

From the author of Henry and Clara, a dazzling, hilarious novel that captures the heart and soul of New York in the Jazz Age.

Bandbox is a hugely successful magazine, a glamorous monthly cocktail of 1920s obsessions from the stock market to radio to gangland murder. Edited by the bombastic Jehoshaphat â€œJoeâ€ Harris, the magazine has a masthead that includes, among many others, a grisly, alliterative crime writer; a shy but murderously determined copyboy; and a burned-out vaudeville correspondent whoâ€™s lovesick for his loyal, dewy assistant.

As the novel opens, the defection of Harrisâ€™s most ambitious protÃ©gÃ© has plunged Bandbox into a death struggle with a new competitor on the newsstand. But thereâ€™s more to come: a sabotaged fiction contest, the NYPD vice squad, a subscriberâ€™s kidnapping, and a film-actress cover subject who makes the heroines of Fosseâ€™s Chicago look like the girls next door. While Harris and his magazine careen from comic crisis to make-or-break calamity, the novel races from skyscraper to speakeasy, hops a luxury train to Hollywood, and crashes a buttoned-down dinner with Calvin Coolidge.

Thomas Mallon has given us a madcap and poignant book that brilliantly portrays the gaudiest American decade of them all.

From the Hardcover edition.

Country	USA
Author	Thomas Mallon
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780307824318
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Pantheon
Manufacturer	Pantheon
NumberOfPages	320
PublicationDate	2012-08-08
Publisher	Pantheon
ReleaseDate	2012-08-08
Studio	Pantheon

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