The Heart of the World

Nik Cohn had planned a trip around the world, but when a friend told him that Broadway is ''the world within itself'', he started walking up the Great White Way, from Battery Park to Times Square. Escorted by a drum-playing Russian taxi driver, fuelled by duck soup and whiskey and sleeping in crackhouse hotels, Cohn encountered pickpockets, dancers, old magicians, disgraced politicians, epic storytellers, part-time messiahs, and an unforgettable transvestite called Lush Life. Hallucinogenic history, rogues'' gallery, personal odyssey, this extraordinary saga is also an extended love letter to a dream of New York now lost.>

Product details

• Authors: Nik Cohn, Cohn Nik
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781784872298
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-229-8
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Illustrated books; New York, New York City, History, 20th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, History: specific events and topics