![]() ![]() There's a randomness to the narrative that echoes real life. With no-one to answer to or be responsible for, Katey is free to take risks and follow paths to unknown destinations. To me the novel perfectly captures the promise and the freedom, the hope and the heartache, and the loneliness and the doubt of a year in the life of a single 20-something living in a big city. Inside, the pine floors were uneven, the rugs frayed, and the Aububon prints slightly askew, as if victims of a distant earthquake.īut like his moth-eaten sweater, the worn aspect of the club seemed to put Wallace at ease." Outside there was a low portico and slim white pillars that made it look like a sorry excuse for a Southern mansion. ![]() In it Katey describes an outing with her wealthy friend Wallace: "Wallace's hunt club was surprisingly run-down in appearance. To prove the point I've opened the book at a random page. Katey's story is inextricably entwined with its richly detailed setting and it's easy to forget that this book was written in the 21st century and not in the 1930s. It's a powerful figure, able to hoist its inhabitants to the heights of society or dump them on the bread line. New York becomes as real a character as Katey and Tinker, bursting with style and promise. That year is 1938, and one of the novel's great strengths is its recreation of the era. ![]()
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