New York, an anthology - Hardcover

Kathyacker Woody; C. K Chesterton

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ISBN 10: 0316547093 ISBN 13: 9780316547093

Publisher: LITTLE BROWN & CO @, 1985

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A comprehensive and thoroughly entertaining anthology of the finest literature and art of New York City. This book draws on material from generations of the world's greatest writers and artists. Writers included range from Charles Dickens to Tom Wolfe with contributions from such diverse literary figures as Saul Bellow, Truman Capote, Henry James, Kathy Acker, Edmund White and more. The extracts come from novels, poems, songs, satire, historical documents diaries, anecdotes & journalism. The art includes murals, engravings posters, drawings and lithographs from all periods of the city's history by such photographers as Stieglitz, Cartier-Bresson & Berenice Abbott; painters such as John Marin, Frank Stella, Ben Shahn & Edward Hopper & many others. This superb collection brilliantly captures in 192 pages of color and black & white art and literature the atmosphere and life of the city on every page.

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This engaging anthology will doubtless find its way to the coffee tables and bedsides of those who know and love New York, and will make a good browsing item. The editors have sought successfully to illustrate the complexity and wonder, the naughtiness and niceties, the silliness and splendor, of life in the world's First City. Many familiar names are here: E.B. White, Dorothy Parker, Henry James; yet they have searched and discovered among the unlikely, and Gorki and Chesterton are here too. To contain all of New York's nooks and crannies in under 400 pages is certainly an impossible task, but this book gets as close as many anthologies might. What a shame that there are so many misprints and no photographs. Polly Warren, formerly with Southern Methodist Univ. in Paris
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