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Gone to New York: Adventures in the City
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 917
EAN: 9780312425043
ISBN: 031242504X
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: August 22, 2006
Publisher: Picador
Release Date: August 22, 2006
Studio: Picador
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Editorial Review:
Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. Meet landlord extraordinaire Zvi Hugo Segal, and the man who scaled the World Trade Center. Learn the location of Manhattan's antipodes, and meander the length of Route 3 to New Jersey. Like his literary forebears Joseph Mitchell and A. J. Liebling, Frazier makes us fall in love with America's greatest city all over again.
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Rating:  - Bag-Snagging in the City
The New York in Woody Allen's movies is beautiful but unreal, like a movie star who's never as stunning in real life as on screen. Ian Frazier's New York, on the other hand, is violent and dirty, but real.
These essays are arranged chronologically, from 1975 to 2005. (Oddly, there are no entries from the eighties.) Frazier writes about neighborhoods and bars and shops and characters. There are floods and robberies and murders.
One of my favorite pieces is about a typewriter ... Read More
Rating:  - GONZO JOURNALISM LIVES!
Hunter Thompson may be gone, but personal journalism is alive and well as evidenced by this superlative collection of quirky,elegant pieces subtitled, "Adventures in the City". If Ian Frazier's book were a mystery, #1 would probably have posted a five-star review the day after it was published in November 2005. Since GONE TO NEW YORK is only a collection of casual essays, it has waited four months for its first customer review. Essays get no respect from Amazon customers -- or from Amazon either, for ... Read More
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