City for Conquest (Lost Urban Classics), by Aben Kandel
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City for Conquest (Lost Urban Classics), by Aben Kandel
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby still captivates readers with its vision of 1920s New York as a city of infinite potential, where ambition and defeat live hand in hand. This sentiment is captured, with even greater acuity, in the pages of Aben Kandel’s nearly forgotten masterpiece of urban life, City for Conquest (1936). The source of the classic 1940s James Cagney film of the same name, this panoramic New York novel captures the complex patterns of city life, vividly evoking a metropolis of dreams and nightmares.Kandel portrays a volatile city inhabited by the aristocrat, the criminal, the idealist, the bohemian, the driven, the entrapped, and the impoverished, all equally striving “to make a dent in this town.” The city itself is booming, its new constructions callously built on destruction, supplanting with equal disdain the slums of Brooklyn and the farm fields of the Bronx. This feverish microcosm of humanity inhabits a world of immense inequality where “six blocks from Wall Street, people haven’t got a dime, six blocks from duplex apartments, people live in hovels” and “between the scarlet sore and the apple of the eye there lay a thick eyebrow of indifference.”A literary triumph in the tradition of Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and John Dos Passos’ Manhattan Transfer, and out of print for far too long, City for Conquest is the inaugural work of fiction in Transaction’s new Lost Urban Classics series.
City for Conquest (Lost Urban Classics), by Aben Kandel- Published on: 2015-06-30
- Released on: 2015-07-14
- Format: Kindle eBook
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“This is a reissue of a book . . . which is shortly to appear in pictures, and which deserves a wider market than it received in 1938. New York— from the upper reaches of the Bronx, to the sordid tenements on Death Avenue and the river fronts, pitilessly exposed, in a succession of staccato episodes. Together they weave an intricate pattern of city life, pitched high, pitched low, in a wide range of social and economic scales. Does it get anywhere? Perhaps not, but the telling is vivid, poignant, searching, tragic. It is New York, at its worst rather than its best.”
—Kirkus Review
About the Author
Aben Kandel was an American novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of Vaudeville, Black Sun, and Rabbi Burns. He was known for the screenplay I Was a Teenage Werewolf.
Leonard Quart is professor emeritus of cinema at CUNY and COSI, contributing editor at Cineaste, and co-author of American Film and Society since 1945.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Interesting window on early 20th-century NYC, peopled by shallow characters By David Rolfe "City for Conquest" opens as the Panic of 1907 winds down, introducing the characters as a collection of children, covering the geography and social/economic strata of New York City. It follow the characters over the next decades as they grow up and intersect, each in his or her own way seduced by the glamour and opulence of the great city, and each in quest of "conquest". It's a lifelike and readable look at how the city functioned, capturing both the functional production (factories, transport, finance, etc) as well as the social dysfunction and corruption that greased the wheels of politics and commerce (the boys at the top of the pile are shown having ascended by less than honest means). The book seems to rise above a simple agenda of editorializing on capitalism or the like; however it is so intently focused on exposing the troubled side that the characters seem to bend under the will of the author, rather than growing and acting as fully-fleshed individuals. This dramatic weakness dampened my potential to enjoy the story. But if you want a view of a vanished world from one who was there (Aben Kandel was born in 1897 and wrote this book in 1936; he would be approximately the age of his principle characters), this book is worth picking up. Good to have it back in print. (I read an older copy, so I can't testify to whether this new edition is an accurate rendering.)
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