The Heart of the World

Autori

• Nik Cohn

Parametri

• 371 pagine
• 13 ore di lettura

• Letteratura romantica
• Mappe e viaggi
• Narrativa
• Saggistica
• Tema stórico

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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 tranvestite 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.

• Tracce di umidità / macchie

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 1992

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Condizioni del libro: Danneggiato

Prezzo: 8,94 €