The Brooklyn Reader: 30 Writers Celebrate America's Favorite Borough
Pete Hamill Editat de Andrea W. Sexton, Alice Leccese Powersen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 1995
Anatole Broyard
Cristina Garcia
Henry Miller
Betty Smith
Derek Walcott
Truman Capote
Spike Lee
Isaac Bashevis Singer
William Styron
Walt Whitman
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780517883792
ISBN-10: 0517883791
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 136 x 223 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Three Rivers Press (CA)
ISBN-10: 0517883791
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 136 x 223 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Three Rivers Press (CA)
Recenzii
"Lively, affectionate, moving pieces by the natives and transplants who have made Brooklyn one of America's great literary landscapes." -- Tallahassee Democrat
"Intelligently conceived and intelligently executed ... a portrait of the borough as it might have been edited for William Shawn's New Yorker." -- Boston Sunday Globe
"There's plenty of gems ... one of the best is Capote's evocation of the Heights and those first sentences: 'I live in Brooklyn. By choice.' " -- New York
"Testaments to the mythic place Brooklyn was, and in many ways continues to be."--New YorkDaily News.
"Intelligently conceived and intelligently executed ... a portrait of the borough as it might have been edited for William Shawn's New Yorker." -- Boston Sunday Globe
"There's plenty of gems ... one of the best is Capote's evocation of the Heights and those first sentences: 'I live in Brooklyn. By choice.' " -- New York
"Testaments to the mythic place Brooklyn was, and in many ways continues to be."--New YorkDaily News.
Descriere
Ranging from warm, nostalgic memories of childhood to humorous tales of new arrivals adjusting to the American way, or just stories of life's unplanned adventures, THE BROOKLYN READER features a rich diversity of writings--short stories, poetry, essays, novels, biographies, and plays--that offer 30 writers' unique and colorful experiences of New York City's biggest borough.
Notă biografică
Andrea Wyatt Sexton Alice Lecesse Powers