The Empire City: A Novel of New York City

by Paul Goodman

Book Overview

The thirty year epic story of Horatio, an idealist who struggles to take his place in a conformist society and still retain his personal identity.

"If we conformed to the mad society, we became mad," Paul Goodman writes in Empire City, "but if we did not conform to the only society that there is, we became mad." That theme prevades much of this novel that the Review of Contemporary Fiction, among others, praised...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574231774
• ISBN13: 9781574231779
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Length: 598 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"