Livings Jack
Livings Jack - The Blizzard Party A Novel - Paperback
Livings Jack - The Blizzard Party A Novel - Paperback
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Description: A panoramic novel set in New York City during the catastrophic blizzard of February 1978. On February 6, 1978, a catastrophic nor easter struck the city of New York. On that night in a penthouse in the Upper West Side's stately Apelles apartment building a crowd gathered for a wild party. And on that night Mr. Albert Haynes Caldwell a partner emeritus at Swank Brady & Plescher; Harvard class of 26; father of three; widower; atheist; and fiscal conservative hatched a plan to fake a medical emergency and toss himself into the Hudson River where he would drown. In the eye of this storm: Hazel Saltwater age six. The strange events of that night irrevocably altered many lives but none more than hers. The Blizzard Party is Hazel's reconstruction of the facts an exploration of love language conspiracy auditory time travel and life after death. Cinematic with a vast cast of characters and a historical scope that spans World War II Poland the lives of rich and powerful Manhattanites in the late 1970s and the enduring effects of 9/11, Jack Livings's The Blizzard Party is an epic novel in the form of a final farewell.
Title: The Blizzard Party A Novel
Author(s): Livings Jack
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Barcode: 9781250829665
Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Date: 2/22/2022
Category: Historical Fiction
Description: A panoramic novel set in New York City during the catastrophic blizzard of February 1978. On February 6, 1978, a catastrophic nor easter struck the city of New York. On that night in a penthouse in the Upper West Side's stately Apelles apartment building a crowd gathered for a wild party. And on that night Mr. Albert Haynes Caldwell a partner emeritus at Swank Brady & Plescher; Harvard class of 26; father of three; widower; atheist; and fiscal conservative hatched a plan to fake a medical emergency and toss himself into the Hudson River where he would drown. In the eye of this storm: Hazel Saltwater age six. The strange events of that night irrevocably altered many lives but none more than hers. The Blizzard Party is Hazel's reconstruction of the facts an exploration of love language conspiracy auditory time travel and life after death. Cinematic with a vast cast of characters and a historical scope that spans World War II Poland the lives of rich and powerful Manhattanites in the late 1970s and the enduring effects of 9/11, Jack Livings's The Blizzard Party is an epic novel in the form of a final farewell.
Title: The Blizzard Party A Novel
Author(s): Livings Jack
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Barcode: 9781250829665
Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Date: 2/22/2022
Category: Historical Fiction
