Sofka Zinovieff

The ballad of John and Anton

Barbash’s darkly humorous novel centres on the occupants of New York’s Dakota building and the fascination and curse of celebrity

  • The Dakota Winters

    Tom Barbash

    Scribner, pp. 324

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