"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 |
| Publication date: | 1st December 2008 |
| Author: | James Schuyler, John Ashbery |
| Publisher: | Dalkey Archive Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 191 pages |
| Series: | American Literature Series |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |