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SAINT MAZIE

Jami Attenberg

For decades Mazie Phillips has run a movie theater on the Bowery in New York City, but what she is famous for is helping the homeless. She gives them money and soap every day, lets them watch movies for free at her theater, and at night she tends to their needs on the dark streets of New York. But Mazie Phillips is a real broad too: boozy, feisty, and funny. She is "The Queen of the Bowery." Inspired by Joseph Mitchell's legendary essay collection Up in the Old Hotel, Jami Attenberg imagines the life of a real good-time girl turned saint about whom very little is known. Mazie's troubled love life, her struggles with poverty and family, and her unique way of living outside of society's constructs are brought to life in this funny, smart, heart-wrenching, unique new novel from critically acclaimed Jami Attenberg.

SAINT MAZIE
Deutsch von Barbara Christ
[HC Schoeffling 08/16; TB btb 03/19]

Available products
Book Published 2015-06-01 by Grand Central Publishing

Comments

UK: Serpent's Tail; Italy: La Giuntina; France: Les Escales;

SAINT MAZIE has been optioned for film by a producer named Faye Ward who is working closely with Helen Bonham Carter who will play Mazie! https://twitter.com/jamiattenberg/status/741284266093465600

SAINT MAZIE is a novel with as much style and moxie as its titular character. I missed Mazie Gordon-Phillips and her family when I was finished reading, but I missed New York, too. By telling this one woman's story, Jami Attenberg has managed to write an ode to New Yorkers of every generation. She is a true poet of the city." - Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times bestselling author of The Story of A.J. Fikry