Fiction. Poetry. Cross-Genre. This is not the mythic Manhattan of bright lights and glitz. It is called MANHATTEN and it is wonderfully out of kilter. In this mixed-genre book (fiction, poetry, review), Sarah Rosenthal layers headlong, voice-driven prose with silent, otherly poems to tell a story of an island where relationships are disturbed yet meaningful and luminous"--Juliana Spahr. "I like Sarah Rosenthal's Manhatten because it's generous with self. Also alarmingly well written. And best of all, MANHATTEN awkwardly and beautifully makes the claim that heterosexuals are human too!"--Eileen Myles.
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This is not the mythic Manhattan of bright lights and glitz. It is called Manhatten and it is wonderfully out of kilter. In this mixed-genre book (fiction, poetry, review), Sarah Rosenthal layers headlong, voice-driven prose with silent, otherly poems to tell a story of an island where relationships are disturbed yet meaningful and luminous. --Juliana Spahr
Proudly misspelled, Manhatten chronicles the adventures of a young woman as she searches for her life story in the ultimate American metropolis. The heroine--who may or may not be author Sarah Rosenthal--leads the reader into one scene after another filled with family, friends, chance acquaintances, exes, and current love interests, where relationships and geography intertwine and memories collect on every street corner. As keen and insistent as the city it describes, this writing attains a clarity fueled by hunger for insight and language's tonal responsiveness. Spanning two coasts, leaping whole decades in a single clause, Manhatten documents the rush of events and the meditative spaces between, negotiating a life complete with all its enchantments, illusions, intersections, and collisions. --Pamela Lu
I like Sarah Rosenthal's Manhatten because it's generous with self. Also alarmingly well written. And best of all, Manhatten awkwardly and beautifully makes the claim that heterosexuals are human too! --Eileen Myles
Proudly misspelled, Manhatten chronicles the adventures of a young woman as she searches for her life story in the ultimate American metropolis. The heroine--who may or may not be author Sarah Rosenthal--leads the reader into one scene after another filled with family, friends, chance acquaintances, exes, and current love interests, where relationships and geography intertwine and memories collect on every street corner. As keen and insistent as the city it describes, this writing attains a clarity fueled by hunger for insight and language's tonal responsiveness. Spanning two coasts, leaping whole decades in a single clause, Manhatten documents the rush of events and the meditative spaces between, negotiating a life complete with all its enchantments, illusions, intersections, and collisions. --Pamela Lu
I like Sarah Rosenthal's Manhatten because it's generous with self. Also alarmingly well written. And best of all, Manhatten awkwardly and beautifully makes the claim that heterosexuals are human too! --Eileen Myles
About the Author
Sarah Rosenthal grew up in Chicago and lives in San Francisco. She is the author of three chapbooks: How I Wrote This Story (Margin to Margin, 2001), SITINGS (a+bend, 2000) and not-chicago (Melodeon Poetry Systems, 1998). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous journals and have been anthologized in BAY POETICS (Faux Press, 2006) and hinge (Crack Press, 2002). She has taught creative writing at Santa Clara University and San Francisco State University. She has edited a collection of interviews entitled A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area. She is the recipient of the Leo Litwak Award for Fiction and grant-supported writing residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Ragdale Foundation.
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Beguiling travelogue of the soul,
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Unsung and unsullied, this mysterious word dervish sent me reeling with Manhatten, a gleefully unclassifiable collection of poetry and prose pieces centered around a bookish adventurer whose minor-key but major-league observations and experiences form a delightfully skewed New Yawk narrative of neurosis, nonchalance and nomenclature. Strunk and White might frightfully fret over the writer's playful disregard for the spelling of her title and the everywhichwayness of her grammar, but lovelorn language lads and peppy preposition princesses will savor every sentence. From first page to last it's clear we are in the presence of an original thinker, one who loves life even more than writing. Book of the year--this, or any other.
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A Treasure,
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Sarah Rosenthal's book is a treat and a treasure. Manhatten subtly and exquisitely blends and blurs the distinction between self and place while never leaving you lost. In Manhatten you get a delightful experience of a slice of life both effected by and effecting its place in the world. A deceptive easy read, its blend of tense and style keeps you from falling and allows you to ride just above the obvious. Manhatten takes you into your own search of place. This is a book not be missed and one that you will read several times.
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Lovely Read,
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Sarah Rosenthal's long-awaited book Manhatten is a deeply introspective yet lyrical read about her time spent in New York City. The characters and humor popped off the page, and the setting was a vivid recollection of the city (which I especially appreciated because I grew up in New York). But the book is not just a portrait of Manhattan, it's Rosenthal's portrait of Manhattan. It's about her relationship with the city (and with being young and insecure and inspired and in search of one's identity IN the city). I think this is one reason why the title spells the city's name incorrectly - because this Manhattan is a private Manhatten, a skewed Manhatten. I loved this aspect of it, this searching for your footing in the big city that is only just a symbol or microcosm of the big world. I certainly had my own private relationship with Manhattan as a young adult, and this brought me back to that time of uncertainty, excitement, and the sense that everything simultaneously hangs in the balance and lies up ahead.
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