| Gone to New York: Adventures in the City Contributor(s): Frazier, Ian (Author), Kincaid, Jamaica (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 031242504X ISBN-13: 9780312425043 Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2006 Annotation: Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, a city more downtown than up, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. His bewitching, inimitable voice, makes readers fall in love with America's greatest city all over again. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | United States - Northeast - Middle Atlantic (nj, Ny, Pa) - Travel | Essays & Travelogues |
| Dewey: 917.471 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.60 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Geographic Orientation - New York - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Frazier, Ian: - Ian Frazier is the author of Travels in Siberia, Great Plains, On the Rez, Lamentations of the Father and Coyote V. Acme, among other works, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He graduated from Harvard University. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey.Kincaid, Jamaica: - Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, and My Brother. She lives with her family in Vermont. |