THE NEW CITY
“MY FAVORITE NOVEL OF 2000 MUST BE STEPHEN AMIDON ’S “THE NEW CITY,” AN AMBITIOUS ATTEMPT TO UPDATE AMERICA’S LONG QUEST FOR THE GREAT GOOD PLACE. SET IN EAST COAST SUBURBIA, CIRCA 1975, THE BOOK BRIGHTLY REFLOATS THE WISHFUL IDEALISM THAT INFORMED THE POST-WATERGATE ERA, BUT IS WISELY BALLASTED WITH THOSE RECURRING THEMES OF COMPELLING FICTION: GREED, AMBITION AND LUST. THE ENDING IS HEARTBREAKING BUT TRUE-TO-LIFE, AND WE FINISH THE BOOK HAVING GAZED DEEPLY AND DARKLY INTO THE AMERICAN LOOKING GLASS.”
COLIN HARRISON, THE HARTFORD COURANT
COLIN HARRISON, THE HARTFORD COURANT
INTERVIEWS ETC.Sarah Pekkanen Baltimore Sun.
Stephen Amidon Bold Type. Window on Wake. Kojo Nnamdi WAMU Mark Campbell "Apocalyptic Times," Crime Time. Joanna Coles The Times. The Koji Nmandi Show BBC Radio : Meridian 
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REVIEWS
Vittorio Macioce Emporion.
Vittorio Macioce il Giornale. John Sutherland The Sunday Times. February 2000. Alan Mahar The New Statesman. March 2000 Tom Vanderbilt L A Times January 2000 Tom Walker Denver Post. January 2000 Kirkus Reviews, January 2000 Sherri Hallgren Pittsburg Post Gazette, March 2000 | ||