James McCourt, Author . Knopf $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-394-52362-0
McCourt's latest collection, though funny and smart enough for two books, falls short of gratification. It revisits the life of Kaye Wayfaring, an aging movie star (and recurring character in McCourt's work) who lives in Los Angeles's...
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James McCourt, Author . Norton $27.95 (577p) ISBN 978-0-393-05051-6
McCourt is the author of perhaps the best novel about opera (Mawrdew Czgowchwz, 1975, his first book—recently reissued by NYRB Classics) as well as the best novel about AIDS (Time Remaining, 1992). Queer Street marks his debut in nonfiction,...
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James McCourt, Author . Turtle Point $17.95 (520p) ISBN 978-1-933527-08-6
Mawrdew Czgowchwz (pronounced “Mardu Gorgeous”)—the diva heroine of McCourt's classic, recently reissued opera novel of the same name—is back in a brilliant form in this sequel, which resurrects the literary, musical and
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James McCourt, Author Alfred A. Knopf $21 (273p) ISBN 978-0-679-41266-3
McCourt is nothing if not consistent. These two linked novellas give us the same characters and voices previously heard in his celebrated earlier works Kaye Wayfaring in `` Avenged'' and Mawdrew Czgowchwz. In the first novella, ``I Go Back to the...
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James McCourt. Liverwright, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-87140-458-9
In this virtuosic meta-memoir, author McCourt (Mawrdew Czgowchwz, Queer Street) careens along the course of his life while exposing the voluble convolutions of his troubled Irish-Catholic family and documenting several long-lost New Yorks. Raised in
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