# The Hanging on Union Square

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- Book: [The Hanging on Union Square](https://www.bookquiver.com/h-t-tsiang/the-hanging-on-union-square) ([The Hanging on Union Square.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/h-t-tsiang/the-hanging-on-union-square.md))
- Authors: [H. T. Tsiang](https://www.bookquiver.com/h-t-tsiang)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4313-402-2
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2019-08-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In Depression-era New York, Mr Nut is an oblivious American everyman, who wants to strike it rich. Over the course of a single night he meets a cast of strange characters - disgruntled workers at a Communist cafeteria, lecherous old men, sexually exploited women and pesky authors - all of whom eventually convince him to cast off his bourgeois aspirations to become a radical activist. Absurdist, inventive and suffused with revolutionary fervour, The Hanging on Union Square is a work of blazing wit and originality.