Items related to HEART OF THE WORLD, THE
Heart of the World
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author:
Nik Cohn was brought up in Derry, Northern Ireland. His books include I Am Still the Greatest Says Johnny Angelo, Ball the Wall, The Heart of the World, and, most recently, Triksta. He also wrote the story that gave rise to Saturday Night Fever and collaborated on Rock Dreams with the artist Guy Peellaert. He lives in Shelter Island, New York, and Ardara, County Donegal.
From Kirkus Reviews:
Moody, sweet-spirited survey of lowlifes, castoffs, and misfits along Broadway, from Battery Park to Times Square. Cohn (King Death, 1975; Rock from the Beginning, 1969) embraces everybody, standing up for thieves, transvestites, and grotesques with hearts of gold. In Battery Park, his Virgil is 20- year-old, drum-playing Sasha Zim from Moscow, a cabdriver in ``bomber jacket and Hawaiian shirt, jogging pants, lumberjack boots, a buffalo-head Western belt and a small silver crucifix,'' who learned English from daytime soap operas and says things such as, ``In taxi is university of all mankinds, what you don't know won't hurt you, what you do is killing you dead. Whole world is going Helen Handbasket.'' Sasha introduces Cohn to a Hispanic team of ``Liberty Boosters,'' pickpockets of the Liberty Bay ferry, one of whom is Stoney, who has ``the rapture'' (epileptic attacks during which God speaks to him) and to whom wallets leap if he merely ``consents to receive'' them. Moving into an eight-by-ten- foot room in Times Square's walk-up Moose Hotel, Cohn meets his young, dope-taking alcoholic transvestite neighbor, Lush Life, a vision in Passion Pink nail polish who left home at 15 and forever abandoned her real name of Geraldo Cruz. Cohn gives us much background on P.T. Barnum and his famed museum of freaks, on Hubert's Museum and Flea Circus in Times Square, on the Gilded Age and Evelyn Nesbit and Stanford White, on the sins of Robert Moses (whose rebuilding plans for the city, Cohn says, cast whole populations into the street), on the sex shops and the Metropole jazz bar (now gone topless) and McSorley's men-only saloon (now letting in women), and on Times Square's Chess and Checkers Club. He ends on chords that can only be called ashen. Striving like Whitman, not cynical, but at last quite desolate. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherVINTAGE
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1784872296
- ISBN 13 9781784872298
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
- Rating
Buy New
Learn more about this copy
US$ 12.87
Shipping:
US$ 5.63
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.
Other Popular Editions of the Same Title
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
The Heart of the World
Published by
Random House 2017-05-04, London
(2017)
ISBN 10: 1784872296
ISBN 13: 9781784872298
New
paperback
Quantity: 10
Seller:
Rating
Book Description paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG. Seller Inventory # 9781784872298
Buy New
US$ 12.87
Convert currency
Stock Image
Heart Of The World, The
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 370462811
Buy New
US$ 12.20
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Heart of the World (Paperback)
Published by
Vintage Publishing, London
(2017)
ISBN 10: 1784872296
ISBN 13: 9781784872298
New
Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A totally unique account of travelling the length of Broadway, brilliantly evoking both its magic and its darker side, from the author of Awopbopaloobop Awopbamboom.Nik Cohn had planned a trip around the world, but when a friend told him that Broadway is 'the world within itself', he started walking up the Great White Way, from Battery Park to Times Square. Escorted by a drum-playing Russian taxi driver, fuelled by duck soup and whiskey and sleeping in crackhouse hotels, Cohn encountered pickpockets, dancers, old magicians, disgraced politicians, epic storytellers, part-time messiahs, and an unforgettable transvestite called Lush Life. Hallucinogenic history, rogues' gallery, personal odyssey, this extraordinary saga is also an extended love letter to a dream of New York now lost. Nik Cohn had planned a trip around the world, but when a friend told him that Broadway is 'the world within itself', he started walking up the Great White Way, from Battery Park to Times Square. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781784872298
Buy New
US$ 20.75
Convert currency
Seller Image
The Heart Of The World [Soft Cover ]
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: new. Seller Inventory # 9781784872298
Buy New
US$ 22.31
Convert currency
Stock Image
HEART OF THE WORLD, THE
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: Brand New. 400 pages. 7.80x5.08x0.98 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __1784872296
Buy New
US$ 12.41
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Heart Of The World
Published by
Vintage Publishing
(2017)
ISBN 10: 1784872296
ISBN 13: 9781784872298
New
Softcover
Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. When a friend told the author that Broadway is 'the world within itself', he started walking up the Great White Way, from Battery Park to Times Square. He encountered pickpockets, dancers, old magicians, part-time messiahs, and a transvestite called Lush Life. This saga is also an extended love letter to a dream of New York now lost. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; WTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. . . 2017. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9781784872298
Buy New
US$ 20.90
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Heart Of The World
Published by
Vintage Publishing
(2017)
ISBN 10: 1784872296
ISBN 13: 9781784872298
New
Softcover
Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. When a friend told the author that Broadway is 'the world within itself', he started walking up the Great White Way, from Battery Park to Times Square. He encountered pickpockets, dancers, old magicians, part-time messiahs, and a transvestite called Lush Life. This saga is also an extended love letter to a dream of New York now lost. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; WTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. . . 2017. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9781784872298
Buy New
US$ 25.44
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Heart of the World (Paperback)
Published by
Vintage Publishing, London
(2017)
ISBN 10: 1784872296
ISBN 13: 9781784872298
New
Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A totally unique account of travelling the length of Broadway, brilliantly evoking both its magic and its darker side, from the author of Awopbopaloobop Awopbamboom.Nik Cohn had planned a trip around the world, but when a friend told him that Broadway is 'the world within itself', he started walking up the Great White Way, from Battery Park to Times Square. Escorted by a drum-playing Russian taxi driver, fuelled by duck soup and whiskey and sleeping in crackhouse hotels, Cohn encountered pickpockets, dancers, old magicians, disgraced politicians, epic storytellers, part-time messiahs, and an unforgettable transvestite called Lush Life. Hallucinogenic history, rogues' gallery, personal odyssey, this extraordinary saga is also an extended love letter to a dream of New York now lost. Nik Cohn had planned a trip around the world, but when a friend told him that Broadway is 'the world within itself', he started walking up the Great White Way, from Battery Park to Times Square. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781784872298
Buy New
US$ 27.46
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Heart of the World (Paperback)
Published by
Vintage Publishing, London
(2017)
ISBN 10: 1784872296
ISBN 13: 9781784872298
New
Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A totally unique account of travelling the length of Broadway, brilliantly evoking both its magic and its darker side, from the author of Awopbopaloobop Awopbamboom.Nik Cohn had planned a trip around the world, but when a friend told him that Broadway is 'the world within itself', he started walking up the Great White Way, from Battery Park to Times Square. Escorted by a drum-playing Russian taxi driver, fuelled by duck soup and whiskey and sleeping in crackhouse hotels, Cohn encountered pickpockets, dancers, old magicians, disgraced politicians, epic storytellers, part-time messiahs, and an unforgettable transvestite called Lush Life. Hallucinogenic history, rogues' gallery, personal odyssey, this extraordinary saga is also an extended love letter to a dream of New York now lost. Nik Cohn had planned a trip around the world, but when a friend told him that Broadway is 'the world within itself', he started walking up the Great White Way, from Battery Park to Times Square. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781784872298
Buy New
US$ 20.60
Convert currency
Stock Image
HEART OF THE WORLD, THE
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. New. book. Seller Inventory # D7F7-3-M-1784872296-6
Buy New
US$ 46.46
Convert currency