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The Hanging on Union Square

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780143134022

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 130mm

  • Weight: 195g

  • RRP: £12.99

The Hanging on Union Square

In Depression-era New York, Mr Nut is an oblivious American everyman, who wants to strike it rich. Over the course of a single night he meets a cast of strange characters - disgruntled workers at a Communist cafeteria, lecherous old men, sexually exploited women and pesky authors - all of whom eventually convince him to cast off his bourgeois aspirations to become a radical activist. Absurdist, inventive and suffused with revolutionary fervour, The Hanging on Union Square is a work of blazing wit and originality.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780143134022

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 130mm

  • Weight: 195g

  • RRP: £12.99

About the Author

H. T. Tsiang

H. T. Tsiang (1899-1971) was born in China and emigrated to the United States at the age of twenty-seven. While living in New York he wrote poetry and op-eds, acted in local theatre productions and self-published three novels. In 1943 he staged a theatrical adaptation of his novel, The Hanging on Union Square, that counted Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles and Gregory Peck among its audience members. He died in Los Angeles.

H. T. Tsiang

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