What's for Dinner?
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Before Desperate Housewives showed TV audiences that picture-perfect suburbia is hardly without its share of betrayal and angst, this compelling work by James Schuyler, whom writer John Ashbery called "America's greatest poet," revealed the fragility of family life.
A bittersweet tale about cracking up and putting the pieces back together, this charming, yet dark exposition is seen through the eyes of three households on Long Island.
About this Author
James Schuyler (1923-1991) was a preeminent figure in the celebrated New York School of poets. He grew up in Washington, D.C., and near Buffalo, New York. After World War II, he made his way to Italy, where he served for a time asW.H. Auden's secretary. His books include three novels, A Nest of Ninnies (written with John Ashbery), Alfred and Guinevere, and What's For Dinner, as well as numerous volumes of poetry.
James McCourt was 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 areMawrdew Czgowchwz, Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake, andQueer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985. He lives in New York City.
Reviews
"James Schuyler's sublimely sad and funny novel, What's for Dinner? looks back at Cranford and Madame Bovary and forward to present--day dysfunctional households like those of"Desperate Housewives." It's wonderful to have it back in print." -- John Ashbery
"A quietly scarifying, very funny, and wonderfully compassionate novel." -- Stephen Spender
"What's for Dinner? is a comedy of manners all about alcoholism, insanity, adultery, drugs, moderate incest, and death. [It is] a great gift to the reader." --Alice Notley
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