Description:
Van Vechten's second novel, which his most recent biographer has called a 'great, forgotten American novel of the 1920s'.
Review Quotes:
'Kirsten MacLeod's new MHRA Critical Texts edition of The Blind Bow-Boy makes it possible and attractive to bring Van Vechten into both the undergraduate and graduate classroom by illuminating the novel's complex recipe for hedonism... In every sense, then, MacLeod's framing of the novel makes it feel at once more significant and more enjoyable, and its availability now in an affordable paperback form will hopefully bring more scholars, students, and general readers into contact with its pleasures.' - Kristin Mahoney, Textual Cultures 12.2, 2019, 144-46
'If one were to add The Blind Bow-Boy to a class on modernism, New York literature of the 1920s, or even a twentieth-century literature survey, this edition would make the work accessible to a wide range of students because it serves in itself as an excellent introduction to modernist work. Highly recommended.' - Michelle E. Moore, Modern Language Review 116.3, July 2021, 500-01