Research Catalog
Watching
- Title
- Watching / a novel by John Fergus Ryan.
- Author
- Ryan, John Fergus, 1931-
- Publication
- Norwalk, CT : Rosset-Morgan Books, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3568.Y358 W37 1997g | Off-site |
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- Description
- 192 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Watching begins as a matter-of-fact descriptive account of the sleaze palaces around Times Square, and gathers force page by page, building to a torrent of redemptive poetry - from bleak materials! Meet the retired pickle-jar lid makers, the "remnant folders," the pensioners, wage-slaves and sex-slaves who live in the efficiency apartments of Hell's Kitchen.
- Billy "the Gimp," a stoic pensioner who lives for the peep shows in Times Square, "those sticky-footed temples of enlightenment," describes life in the raw, as it surrounds him, in all its comic horror. Like the graffiti of ruined Pompeii, Billy's tale is the record of a civilization - ours! Watching is one of those rare inventions of which we can say without hesitation, "Every word is true."
- Subject
- Peep shows > New York > Fiction
- ISBN
- 0803893981
- OCLC
- ocm37623551
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries