New York in the Fifties - Softcover

Dan Wakefield

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0975976036 ISBN 13: 9780975976036

Publisher: Pif Press / Greenpoint Press, 2007

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From the Publisher

"A precise and moving recreation of a time and a place when the world seemed small and we knew everyone in it." --Joan Didion

"Dan Wakefield...has become the Boswell of the heady days when art and literature had a single flowering in the Village." --Richard Shepard, The New York Times

"It's hard to imagine a remembrance more congenial--so graceful, so immune to grudge, so seasoned throughout with the equally vivid recollections of his friends." --John Leonard, Newsday

"This lovely, brimming book...tells anyone who was not there what it was like." --The Boston Globe

"Wakefield brings it all back: the emotional kick of Mabel Mercer singing 'My Funny Valentine,' the pleasure of finding a new Salinger story." --Scott Donaldson, USA Today

"Dan Wakefield is a master storyteller." --The Los Angeles Times

About the Author

Dan Wakefield is the author of the best-selling novels Going All the Way and Starting Over, both of which were produced as feature films. His novel Under the Apple Tree is now being developed for film. Wakefield's nonfiction works include Returning: A Spiritual Journey and Creating from the Spirit.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pif Press / Greenpoint Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0975976036
• ISBN 13: 9780975976036
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Rob Kimmel