Name: The Heart of the World (Vintage Departures) (en Inglés)
Price: 16.10 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Nik Cohn
ISBN: 9780679744375

portada The Heart of the World (Vintage Departures) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Vintage Books

Autor

Nik Cohn

Año

1993

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

380

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

0.75

ISBN13

9780679744375

N° edición

Categorías

Estados del atlántico medio de ee. uu.
Historia de américa
Historia local

The Heart of the World (Vintage Departures) (en Inglés)

Nik Cohn (Autor) · Vintage Books · Tapa Blanda

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"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