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Bandbox: A Novel
by Thomas Mallon

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Edition: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon (2004-01-06)
ISBN-10/ISBN-13: 0375421165 / 9780375421167
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 2827906
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A 2004 Vacation Reading (selected by The New York Times)
“At the center of this novel, set in a Hecht-and-MacArthur universe of curmudgeonly editors, swell dames and shimmering watering holes, two glossy magazines wage a circulation war in the twilight of the pre-Depression era.”

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From the author of Henry and Clara, a dazzling, hilarious novel that captures the heart and soul of New York in the Jazz Age.

Bandbox is a hugely successful magazine, a glamorous monthly cocktail of 1920s obsessions from the stock market to radio to gangland murder. Edited by the bombastic Jehoshaphat “Joe” Harris, the magazine has a masthead that includes, among many others, a grisly, alliterative crime writer; a shy but murderously determined copyboy; and a burned-out vaudeville correspondent who’s lovesick for his loyal, dewy assistant.

As the novel opens, the defection of Harris’s most ambitious protégé has plunged Bandbox into a death struggle with a new competitor on the newsstand. But there’s more to come: a sabotaged fiction contest, the NYPD vice squad, a subscriber’s kidnapping, and a film-actress cover subject who makes the heroines of Fosse’s Chicago look like the girls next door. While Harris and his magazine careen from comic crisis to make-or-break calamity, the novel races from skyscraper to speakeasy, hops a luxury train to Hollywood, and crashes a buttoned-down dinner with Calvin Coolidge.

Thomas Mallon has given us a madcap and poi-gnant book that brilliantly portrays the gaudiest American decade of them all.


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