Cross Bronx : A Writing Life, Hardcover by Quinn, Peter; Barry, Dan (FRW), Li...

by Peter Quinn

$87 · Offered by eBay

Cross Bronx : A Writing Life, Hardcover by Quinn, Peter; Barry, Dan (FRW), ISBN 1531500943, ISBN-13 9781531500948, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "In his inimitable prose, master storyteller Peter Quinn chronicles his odyssey from the Irish Catholic precincts of the Bronx to the arena of big-league politics and corporate hardball. Cross Bronx is Peter Quinn's one-of-a-kind account of his adventures as ad man, archivist, teacher, Wall Street messenger, court officer, political speechwriter, corporate scribe, and award-winning novelist. Like Pete Hamill, Quinn is a New Yorker through and through. His evolution from a childhood in a now vanished Bronx, to his exploits in the halls of Albany and swish corporate offices, to then walking away from it all, is evocative and entertaining and enlightening from first page to last. Cross Bronx is bursting with witty, captivating stories. Quinn is best known for his novels and non-fiction (all recently reissued by Fordham University Press under its New York: ReLit imprint), most notably his American Book Award-winning novel Banished Children of Eve. Colum McCann has summed up Quinn's trilogy of historical detective novels as "generous and agile and profound." Quinn has now seized the time and inspiration afforded by "the strange interlude of the pandemic" to give his up-close-and-personal accounts of working as a speechwriter in political backrooms and corporate boardrooms: "In a moment of upended expectations and fear-prone uncer

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Year: 2022
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781531500948
• Condition: Fine

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.