Florry Of Washington Heights

Katz Trilogy

by Steve Katz

William Swanson, a lawyer, looks back on his childhood and the problems that developed when one of his friends began dating Florry O'Neill, the former girlfriend of the warlord of the Fanwoods, a rival gang

208 pages, Paperback

First published December 12, 1986

About the author

Steve Katz (May 14, 1935 – August 4, 2019) was an American writer. He is considered an early post-modern or avant-garde writer for works such as The Exagggerations of Peter Prince (1968), and Saw (1972).

Reviews

[MJ Nicholls]

Sentimental childhood narrative, unengaging realism from a usually unpredictable author.

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kinda trippy reading a steve katz book w/o any formal experimentation, huh? admittedly i searched throughout for some vestige of that in vain, & in terms of plot this doesn't go far beyond "here's some stuff that happened to me and my friends," but it's as closely observed & vivid an account of growing up in the ~*~lost new york~*~ of egg creams etc. as anything this side of teitlebaum's window, so i can't say i was too mad