New York Madness
Maxwell Bodenheim
2025

New edition of Bodenheim's 1933 novel.

"He has overtaken Honoré Balzac at last and is now treading on the heels of Guy de Maupassant. . . . Bodenheim has his district dead to rights."
— George Currie, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 30, 1933

From the back cover of the 1951 Avon paperback reissue:

"Alice was Joe's mistress, and she loved him. What strange purpose made her refuse to marry him? Why wouldn't she even let him support her? Was her obstinacy driving him into the arms of another woman?

"And Mona—she was sensual—but she was searching for something finer than the more sordid side of life. Could she make up her mind? Did she love Emil enough to overlook his misshapen body? Or would she succumb to Stanley's suave handsomeness?

"'Maxwell Bodenheim has never written a more fascinating, sweeping story, reflecting New York in its own racy lingo!' Read it and decide for yourself: Could these girls be blamed for their almost wanton lives? Or were they just helpless victims of NEW YORK MADNESS?"