The End of Vandalism (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Tom Drury
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1991-1992
- Setting: Iowa
- Principal Characters: Dan Norman, Louise Darling, Tiny Darling, Mary Montrose
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Love or romance, New York City, Marriage, Midwest, American Dream, Cancer, Farms, farmers, or farming
- Locales: Iowa
A famous cover of The New Yorker magazine, which has been enlarged, reproduced, and sold by the tens of thousands in poster shops, purports to show the typical New Yorker’s mental picture of the United States: Beyond the Hudson River there is little but wasteland. The magazine itself was originally intended to be by New Yorkers, for New Yorkers, and about New Yorkers. Readers living in the hinterlands could expect to have trouble understanding many of the cartoons and would always feel a little like Dorothy dreaming of the Emerald City of Oz.
Over the years, however, the...
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