The Heart of the World
Vintage Books, 1993
Összefoglaló
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. Con- ducted by a writer with the manic energy of a sideshow barker and the full-blooded lyricism of a raucous poet, this is a bebop od- yssey 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.
Részletek
- angol
- 371 oldal
- Kötés: papír / puha kötés
- jó állapotú antikvár könyv
- Szállító: Központi Antikvárium Kft.
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