{"product_id":"mawrdew-czgowchwz-isbn-9780940322974","title":"Mawrdew Czgowchwz","description":"Diva Mawrdew Czgowchwz (pronounced \"Mardu Gorgeous\") bursts like the most brilliant of comets onto the international opera scene, only to confront the deadly malice and black magic of her rivals. Outrageous and uproarious, flamboyant and serious as only the most perfect frivolity can be, James McCourt's entrancing send-up of the world of opera has been a cult classic for more than a quarter-century. This comic tribute to the love of art is a triumph of art and love by a contemporary American master.\"McCourt is the author of perhaps the best novel about opera.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"McCourt  makes brave comic choices, delighting in mythic celebrity while  dissecting the ways it is made and sustained. Bravo! Encore!\" —John Lahr \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bravo,  James McCourt, a literary countertenor in the exacting tradition of  Firbank and Nabokov, who makes his daringly self-assured debut with this  intelligent and very funny book.\" —Susan Sontag \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"Mawrdew Czgowchwz\u003c\/i\u003e is a Zuleika Dobson of the opera world. James McCourt is an ecstatic  fabulist, robustly funny and inventive, and touchingly in love with his  subject. His novel is both special and precious, in the most honorable  senses of those words.\" —\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \"A gloriously  flamboyant debut. Take it in spoonfuls and you’ll find passages to fall  in love with. Sooner or later, you may even find yourself reading them  aloud to your friends.\" —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames McCourt \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in New York City and attended Manhattan College,  NYU, the Yale School of Drama, and the Old Met. Among his works of  fiction and nonfiction are \u003ci\u003eMawrdew Czgowchwz\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eQueer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWayne Koestenbaum\u003c\/b\u003e has published five books of critical prose, including \u003ci\u003eThe Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire,\u003c\/i\u003e which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; and three books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eOde to Anna Moffo and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302897012965,"sku":"NP9780940322974","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780940322974.jpg?v=1767732431","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/mawrdew-czgowchwz-isbn-9780940322974","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}