Wolfe, Thomas,  1900-1938. <br/><br/>
The party at Jack's / 
Thomas Wolfe ; edited and with an introduction by Suzanne Stutman & John L. Idol, Jr. 
 - Chapel Hill :  University of North Carolina Press,   
 - xxxii, 242 pages ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/> In the summer of 1937, Thomas Wolfe was in the North Carolina mountains revising a piece about a party and subsequent fire at the Park Avenue penthouse apartment of the fictional Esther and Frederick Jack. He wrote to his agent, Elizabeth Nowell, "I think it is now a single thing, as much a single thing as anything I've ever written." Wolfe's novella affords a significant glimpse of a Depression era New York inhabited by Wall Street wheelers and dealers and the theatrical and artistic elite. Wolfe describes the Jacks and their social circle with lavish attention to mannerisms, clothing, furnishings, and other trappings of wealth and privilege, and he spreads before readers a table groaning with sumptuous food. The sharply drawn contrast between the decadence of the party-goers and the struggles of the working classes in the streets below reveals Wolfe's gifts as both a writer and a sharp social critic. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>080782206X 9780807822067 9780807849576 080784957X 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>94034179 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA602739  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Apartment houses--Fiction.<br/>Entertaining--Fiction.<br/>Fires--Fiction.<br/>Apartment houses.<br/>Entertaining.<br/>Fires.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.<br/>New York (State)--New York.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Didactic fiction.<br/>Fiction.<br/>Historical fiction.<br/>Historical fiction.<br/>Didactic fiction.<br/>Historical fiction.<br/>Didactic fiction.<br/>Historical fiction.<br/>Didactic fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3545.O337  / P37 1995 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.52