The Great Wall of New York

By Kevin Bartelme

Fiction. In this novel the haute monde behave badly in a wildly comic, high-speed ride down the slippery slope of wealth and power in New York City. The GREAT WALL OF NEW YORK is an antic examination of how the other one percent lives. Romance, intrigue, financial shenanigans, and murder are only a few of the items on the menu. Stir in a little sex, politics and religion and you've got an appetizingly funny stew sauced off with the cr?me de la cr?me. Like Wyndham Lewis, Nathaniel West, and Terry Southern before him, Kevin Barthelme fine tunes his Geiger counter to hunt down the peacock in the mineshaft of the vanities and flush it back out into the light of day!--Alan Jones. The book is illustrated with drawings by Robert Grossman, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The New Yorker and Rolling Stone.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1887276378
• ISBN13: 9781887276375
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Cool Grove Press
• Length: 256 Pages

Customer Reviews

Hysterically funny fast paced book

The Great Wall is wildly funny, fast paced and sooooo very New York. It has the proper mix of irony, cynicism, absurdity. While reading this book, you will start to feel like a true New Yorker, privy to the various inside jokes, stories and twisted relationships. It's along the same lines of "Bonfire of the Vanities" - but more intimately New York. The characters, while at the beginning seem a little over the top, really aren't. When I stop and think about it - I know these people!!! They are my neighbors, my colleagues, my friends. (Then again - I do live in NYC).