Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Davis, L.J.; Lethem, Jonathan |
| Publisher: | NYRB Classics |
| Date: | 3/10/2009 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
L.J. Davis’s 1971 novel, A Meaningful Life, is a blistering black comedy about theAmerican quest for redemption through real estate and a gritty picture of New YorkCity in collapse. Just out of college, Lowell Lake, the Western-born hero of Davis’snovel, heads to New York, where he plans to make it big as a writer. Instead he findsa job as a technical editor, at which he toils away while passion leaks out of hismarriage to a nice Jewish girl. Then Lowell discovers a beautiful crumbling mansionin a crime-ridden section of Brooklyn, and against all advice, not to mention hiswife’s will, sinks his every penny into buying it. He quits his job, moves in, andspends day and night on demolition and construction. At last he has a mission: hewill dig up the lost history of his house; he will restore it to its past will make good on everything that’s gone wrong with his life, and he will evenmurder to do it.
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