Gone to New York

Gone to New York
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 181
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ISBN-10 : 9781466800458
ISBN-13 : 1466800453
Rating : 4/5 (453 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Gone to New York by : Ian Frazier

Download or read book Gone to New York written by Ian Frazier and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2006-08-22 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, a city more downtown than up, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. Meet landlord extraordinaire Zvi Hugo Segal, and the man who climbed the World Trade Center, and an eighty-three-year-old typewriter repairman whose shop on Fulton Street has drawers full of umlauts. Learn the location of Manhattan's antipodes, and meander the length of Route 3 to New Jersey. Like his literary forbears Joseph Mitchell and A.J. Liebling, Frazier, in his bewitching, inimitable voice, makes us fall in love with America's greatest city all over again, the way he did, arriving as a young man from Hudson, Ohio. In classic evocations of the F train, Canal Street, and Prospect Park, Brooklyn, and in his iconic "Bags in Trees" essay, Frazier gives us New York again, in all its vital and human multiplicity.


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