DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

A Nest of Ninnies

A Novel

John Ashbery author James Schuyler author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press

Published:1st Dec '08

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

A Nest of Ninnies cover

"James Schuyler and I began writing A Nest of Ninnies purely by chance," writes John Ashbery in his new introduction to this classic of American comic fiction. "We were in a car being driven by the young cameraman, Harrison Starr, with his father as a passenger in the front seat...Jimmy said, 'Why don't we write a novel?' And how do we do that, I asked. 'It's easy--you write the first line,' was his reply." The result is one of the strangest and most exuberant experiments in American literary history, a verbal tour de force of suburban Americana. First published in 1969, A Nest of Ninnies is a true gem-in-the-rough, the decades-long collaborative project from two of the great poetic minds of the twentieth century.

ISBN: 9781564785206

Dimensions: 203mm x 142mm x 15mm

Weight: 454g

191 pages