Description
With only a nickel and a ten-cent check to his name, Mr. Nut drifts through a single day in New York, moving from a worker’s cafeteria to the glittering edges of dinner clubs and the intimate, complicated spaces in between. As he passes through different corners of the city’s social strata, his observations sharpen into questions—and then into conviction—until his private ambitions give way to public resistance. The Hanging on Union Square is a sharply observed, fast-moving portrait of class, desire, and survival, tracing how a young man’s peripatetic musings can become a radical awakening. Written in H. T. Tsiang’s distinctive, incisive style, the novel blends street-level realism with political urgency, inviting readers to consider what it costs to see clearly—and what it means to act.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Classics
Published May 21, 2019
240 pages
ISBN: 9780143134022
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First Published
1935
Language
eng
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