Above Sugar Hill by Linda Mannheim
Above Sugar Hill is an unforgettable collection of short stories set in Washington Heights, New York City. Located between 145th and 181st Street - roads no one from outside the neighbourhood is expected to visit. It is a visceral, vital work of site-specific fiction. These tales of New York take place between 1973 and 2001 - a Puerto Rican Independentista fends off the FBI, a young girl spots Marilyn Monroe more than ten years after Monroe's suicide, an opera-singing housing activist goes missing and presumed to have been murdered. Above Sugar Hill is a literary map of Upper Manhattan memories, uncompromising narratives and complicated truths.
"Mannheim's restive tales of her desiccated stretch of New York provoke and abide like a slap" - Eimear McBride "Linda Mannheim's smouldering vignettes of New York life are both achingly sad and beautifully wrought. These are stories to re-read and savour." - Stuart Evers "The stories in Above Sugar Hill share a strong sense of territory but at the same time the buildings in them are vandalised and neglected; they burn and crumble - The children are as vulnerable as the buildings in which they live." - Alison Moore
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| ISBN 13 | 9780992765521 |
| ISBN 10 | 0992765528 |
| Title | Above Sugar Hill |
| Author | Linda Mannheim |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Influx Press |
| Year published | 2014-05-31 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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