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 ldquo;Joerdquo; 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 whorsquo;s lovesick for his loyal; dewy assistant.As the novel opens; the defection of Harrisrsquo;s most ambitious proteacute;geacute; has plunged Bandbox into a death struggle with a new competitor on the newsstand. But therersquo;s more to come: a sabotaged fiction contest; the NYPD vice squad; a subscriberrsquo;s kidnapping; and a film-actress cover subject who makes the heroines of Fossersquo;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.
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