The Party at Jack's

Locations
Call Number: Wolfe, Thomas
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Wolfe, Thomas	4-week checkout	On Shelf

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Surprisingly good story submitted by Ilyjtwya on June 12, 2015, 6:54pm I saw this book when I began to read Thomas Wolfe's work, and had a completely different impression of it than the reality. My expectation was for a shallow description of a party, but Wolfe makes a lot of social commentary within the story. While the shortened version does appear one of his larger books, this one takes a deeper dive into the characters. It is also notable, for readers unfamiliar with his work, that much of Wolfe's work was auto-biographical fiction. I found that it gives his work a deeper meaning for me. Don't read this book because the title has the word party, read it to get an outsider's view of high society in New York immediately prior to the Stock Market crash at the start of the Great Depression.