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Bandbox : A Novel by Mallon, Thomas is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From the author of *Henry and Clara*, a dazzling, hilarious novel that captures the heart and soul of New York in the Jazz Age.*Bandbox* is a hugely successful magazine, a glamorous monthly cocktail of 1920s obsessions from the stock market to radio to gangland murder. Edited by the bombastic Jehoshaphat “Joe” Harris, the magazine has a masthead that includes, among many others, a grisly, alliterative crime writer; a shy but murderously determined copyboy; and a burned-out vaudeville correspondent who’s lovesick for his loyal, dewy assistant.As the novel opens, the defection of Harris’s most ambitious protégé has plunged *Bandbox* into a death struggle with a new competitor on the newsstand. But there’s more to come: a sabotaged fiction contest, the NYPD vice squad, a subscriber’s kidnapping, and a film-actress cover subject who makes the heroines of Fosse’s Chicago look like the girls next door. While Harris and his magazine careen from comic crisis to make-or-break calamity, the novel races from skyscraper to speakeasy, hops a luxury train to Hollywood, and crashes a buttoned-down dinner with Calvin Coolidge.Thomas Mallon has given us a madcap and poignant book that brilliantly p

Who reads Bandbox : A Novel?

Author

Mallon, Thomas

Publisher

Pantheon Books

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299045132

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Humor

Rating

3.21 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14