Gotham at War
by Mike Wallace
Wallace, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, is back with another chronicle of New York City. This door stopper, the third in his Gotham series, covers the city’s struggles in the first half of the 20th century, and shows how the fight against American fascism rose from a local concern taken up by recent Italian and Jewish arrivals to a national campaign that helped propel the country into the global battle against the Nazis.
Oxford University Press, Oct. 1
Shadow Ticket
by Thomas Pynchon
“When trouble comes to town, it usually takes the North Shore Line.” So begins Pynchon in his first novel in a dozen years, grabbing you by the collar the way a mob enforcer might to refresh your memory. Remember his genre parodies, his outrageous names (howdy, Zoltán von Kiss), his ornate zingers, his lollygagging but frequently hilarious descriptions? It’s all here in this supercharged noir — a Chandleresque, Depression-era yarn involving a missing heiress and a disaster-prone private eye.
Penguin Press, Oct. 7
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