Nest of Ninnies

By Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas

Book Overview

"James Schuyler and I began writing A Nest of Ninnies purely by chance," writes John Ashbery in his new introduction to this classic of American comic fiction. "We were in a car being driven by the young cameraman, Harrison Starr, with his father as a passenger in the front seat... Jimmy said, 'Why don't we write a novel?' And how do we do that, I asked. 'It's easy--you write the first line, ' was his reply." The result is one of the strangest and most exuberant experiments in American literary history, a verbal tour de force of suburban Americana. First published in 1969, A Nest of Ninnies is a true gem-in-the-rough, the decades-long collaborative project from two of the great poetic minds of the twentieth century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325003076
• ISBN13: 9780325003078
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Heinemann
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.9" x 0.9" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6