The Heart of the World

Informationen zum Autor Nik Cohn Klappentext "The history of Broadway has been written before! but never better. . . . The verbal energy that pours off these pages is enough to transform the hell of...Times Square into a rough-hewn heaven! neon lit and open all night. . . . The only thing wrong with this book is it isn't longer." -Newsweek Nik Cohn ushers readers along the street he calls "The Heart of the World." producing a book that is a resplendent pageant of New York's high-and low-life. Among the characters we meet are a golden-tongued cab driver who calls himself a "collector of farces"; a pickpocket with the terrifying gift of impersonating his marks; a heartbreakingly beautiful Dominican transvestite named Lush Life; strippers; pseudo-prophets; and a disgraced political veteran of the days when the graft was still honest. Conducted by a writer with the manic energy of a sideshow barker and the full-blooded lyricism of a raucous poet! this is a bebop odyssey along the Great White Way that reaches in implication far beyond the streets of New York to document the ever-evolving mixtures that make up America itself. "A lovely! bracing book! full to bursting with juicy! tasty! rancid life. While making its bawdy way through crowded spaces . . . it also travels through modern times . . . wondrous." -USA TODAY Zusammenfassung "The history of Broadway has been written before! but never better. . . . The verbal energy that pours off these pages is enough to transform the hell of...Times Square into a rough-hewn heaven! neon lit and open all night. . . . The only thing wrong with this book is it isn't longer." — Newsweek Nik Cohn ushers readers along the street he calls "The Heart of the World." producing a book that is a resplendent pageant of New York's high—and low—life. Among the characters we meet are a golden-tongued cab driver who calls himself a "collector of farces"; a pickpocket with the terrifying gift of impersonating his marks; a heartbreakingly beautiful Dominican transvestite named Lush Life; strippers; pseudo-prophets; and a disgraced political veteran of the days when the graft was still honest. Conducted by a writer with the manic energy of a sideshow barker and the full-blooded lyricism of a raucous poet! this is a bebop odyssey along the Great White Way that reaches in implication far beyond the streets of New York to document the ever-evolving mixtures that make up America itself. "A lovely! bracing book! full to bursting with juicy! tasty! rancid life. While making its bawdy way through crowded spaces . . . it also travels through modern times . . . wondrous." —USA TODAY ...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: N. Cohn, Nik Cohn
• Edition: Vintage USA
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 02.03.1993
• EAN: 9780679744375
• ISBN: 978-0-679-74437-5
• Pages: 380
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Thème: Vintage Departures
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques; Voyage > Guides de voyages