Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn

by Harvey Swados

Book Overview

There was a time when New York was everything to me: my mother, my mistress, my Mecca, when I could no more have wanted to live any place else than I could have conceived of myself as a daddy,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590170849
• ISBN13: 9781590170847
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Forgotten master

Harvey Swados is a major talent who seems to have been largely forgotten after his untimely death in 1972. In these longish short stories, Swados demonstrates a mastery of story-telling with great psychological insight into his characters who come from all sorts of backgrounds. A writer with a Jewish background, he is certainly one of the few white writers to write convincingly from the perspective of African-Americans.