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Zusatztext Everyone is Watching offers a fascinating glimpse into a creative world Informationen zum Autor Megan Bradbury was born in the United States and grew up in Britain. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She was awarded the Charles Pick Fellowship at UEA and she won an Escalator Literature Award and a Grant for the Arts to help fund the completion of her first novel, Everyone is Watching . Klappentext 'Beautiful: unusual, intoxicating and bold'Guardian 'One of the best debuts I've read in years'Eimear McBride, author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing This is a novel of New York, the story of a city . . . In 1891 Walt Whitman is returning to New York at the end of his life, knowing only it can inspire him. The city he saw built is changing still. By 1922, Robert Moses, the man who will build modern New York, stares out across Long Island, and imagines what it might become. In 1967 Robert Mapplethorpe is searching for love, excitement, and fame in the city of his dreams, and forty years later Edmund White walks the same streets, remembering nights of ecstasy and euphoria. This is a novel of New York. Of the art that could only have been made there, and the lives that have built the city itself. 'Dirty, dangerous and delicious'Olivia Laing, New Statesman'Daring, urgent . . . an important addition to the literature of New York'Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You'Mesmerising' Stylist A beautiful and beguiling novel of New York told through the lives of some of those who have defined the city: Robert Moses, Edmund White, Walt Whitman and Robert Mapplethorpe. Zusammenfassung A beautiful and beguiling novel of New York told through the lives of some of those who have defined the city: Robert Moses, Edmund White, Walt Whitman and Robert Mapplethorpe.
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I loved Megan Bradbury's debut novel, Everyone Is Watching, a book ostensibly about a century or so of life in New York, but really about how cities themselves are works of communal action and art, and about how, even in the most draconian and reactionary of times, the vibrancy of these two things will light, reveal, challenge and reshape the fabrics of where and how we live. It's a beating heart of a novel Ali Smith Guardian
