The Colossus Of New York

Zusatztext “A tour de force.” —Luc Sante! The New York Times Book Review “Pitch-perfect. . . . Utterly authentic. . . . The Colossus of New York is quite simply the most delicious 13 bites of the Big Apple I’ve taken in ages.” --Grace Lichenstein! The Washington Post “A love letter to New York. . . . Colossus illuminates innumerable little moments that define the city.” — San Francisco Chronicle “The cheapest! most stylish ticket to the Big Apple between two covers. . . . .It’s as if Whitehead’s scooped his pen into the collective unconscious of everyone who’s ever visited New York.” — Pittsburg Post-Gazette “A revelatory ode to Gotham. . . . Whitehead’s engaged eyes and precise prose show us the small details we overlook and the large ones we fail to absorb.” — The Miami Herald “Smooth! dazzling! evocative. . . . [Whitehead] writes wonderfully! commanding a lush! poetic! mellifluous prose instrument.” – The Nation “[Whitehead is] a scientist of metropolitan encounters! he surveys places where the masses collide! knitting together hundreds of observations and calculations that usually remain unspoken. . . . The musical prose thrums with urban momentum.” — The Village Voice “[Whitehead’ s] New York! like Walt Whitman’s or Thomas Pynchon’s or Woody Allen’s! is full of incantatory potential. Even the subway! ordinary! noisy! gruddy inevitability! becomes a ferry to the Underworld.” — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “[A] rhapsodic ode to Gotham.” — Time Out “Jazzlike. . . . A vivid impressionistic montage of Manhattan.” — The Seattle Times “Whitehead’s series of vignettes and remembrances paint a perfect visual landscape. . . . A heartfelt tribute to Whitehead’s home.” — The Oregonian “Lyrical. . . . Lean and full of longing. . . . The kind of book that will be . . . passed around! dog-eared! library-tagged! resold! from reader to reader. . . . Whitehead takes a known and specific place and universalizes it! insinuating it into the meshwork of our thoughts in a manner impervious to time and trend.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune “Thrums with anxious excitement and excited anxiety accommodating the noirish! the reportorial! and the epigrammatic. . . . The best passages deserve comparison with E.B. White’s Here is New York .” — Entertainment Weekly “Whitehead [is] one of the city’s and country’s finest young writers. . . . [A] guided tour de force.” — Chicago Tribune “Jazzlike. . . . A vivid impressionistic montage of Manhattan.” — The Seattle Times “A revelatory ode to Gotham. . . . Whitehead’s engaged eyes and precise prose show us the small details we overlook and the large ones we fail to absorb.” — Miami Herald “Profound and playful.” — Los Angeles Times “Whitehead’ s series of vignettes and remembrances paint a perfect visual landscape. . . . A heartfelt tribute to Whitehead’s home.” — The Oregonian “Rhapsodic love letters . . . elegant! ambitious essays.” — New York Post “Impressionistic . . . [an] affecting homage to E.B. White.” — New York Magazine (Top Fall Book Pick) Informationen zum Autor COLSON WHITEHEAD is the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad. His other works include The Noble Hustle , Zone One , Sag Harbor , The Intuitionist , John Henry Days , Apex Hides the Hurt , and one collection of essays, The Colossus of New York . A National Book Award winner and a recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City. Klappentext In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreat...

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A tour de force. Luc Sante, The New York Times Book Review

Pitch-perfect. . . . Utterly authentic. . . . The Colossus of New York is quite simply the most delicious 13 bites of the Big Apple I ve taken in ages. The Washington Post

A love letter to New York. . . . Colossus illuminates innumerable little moments that define the city. San Francisco Chronicle

The cheapest, most stylish ticket to the Big Apple between two covers. . . . .It s as if Whitehead s scooped his pen into the collective unconscious of everyone who s ever visited New York. Pittsburg Post-Gazette

A revelatory ode to Gotham. . . . Whitehead s engaged eyes and precise prose show us the small details we overlook and the large ones we fail to absorb. The Miami Herald

Smooth, dazzling, evocative. . . . [Whitehead] writes wonderfully, commanding a lush, poetic, mellifluous prose instrument. The Nation

[Whitehead is] a scientist of metropolitan encounters, he surveys places where the masses collide, knitting together hundreds of observations and calculations that usually remain unspoken. . . . The musical prose thrums with urban momentum. The Village Voice

[Whitehead s] New York, like Walt Whitman s or Thomas Pynchon s or Woody Allen s, is full of incantatory potential. Even the subway, ordinary, noisy, gruddy inevitability, becomes a ferry to the Underworld. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

[A] rhapsodic ode to Gotham. Time Out

Jazzlike. . . . A vivid impressionistic montage of Manhattan. The Seattle Times

Whitehead s series of vignettes and remembrances paint a perfect visual landscape. . . . A heartfelt tribute to Whitehead s home. The Oregonian

Lyrical. . . . Lean and full of longing. . . . The kind of book that will be . . . passed around, dog-eared, library-tagged, resold, from reader to reader. . . . Whitehead takes a known and specific place and universalizes it, insinuating it into the meshwork of our thoughts in a manner impervious to time and trend. Minneapolis Star Tribune

Thrums with anxious excitement and excited anxiety accommodating the noirish, the reportorial, and the epigrammatic. . . . The best passages deserve comparison with E.B. White s Here is New York. Entertainment Weekly

Whitehead [is] one of the city s and country s finest young writers. . . . [A] guided tour de force. Chicago Tribune

Jazzlike. . . . A vivid impressionistic montage of Manhattan. The Seattle Times

A revelatory ode to Gotham. . . . Whitehead s engaged eyes and precise prose show us the small details we overlook and the large ones we fail to absorb. Miami Herald

Profound and playful. Los Angeles Times

Whitehead s series of vignettes and remembrances paint a perfect visual landscape. . . . A heartfelt tribute to Whitehead s home. The Oregonian

Rhapsodic love letters . . . elegant, ambitious essays. New York Post

Impressionistic . . . [an] affecting homage to E.B. White. New York Magazine (Top Fall Book Pick)

Product details

• Authors: Colson Whitehead
• Publisher: Anchor Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.10.2004
• EAN: 9781400031245
• ISBN: 978-1-4000-3124-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 205 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Anchor Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > North and Central America