City-Pick New York

Heather Reyes [Edfitor

ISBN 10: 0956787614 / ISBN 13: 9780956787613

Published by Oxygen Books, Great Britain, 2011

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All the sights, sounds and flavours of city life with perfect gems of city writing. All ready the series has taken us to the hearts of Paris, London, Berlin, Dublin, Amsterdam and Venice. From Oxygen Books, a new publisher of surprising books about all kinds of journeys. An exciting and unique popular city break travel series featuring the best ever writing on favourite World cities. Short vignettes from writers including Woody Allen, Tom Wolfe and Don DeLillo to Patti Smith, Junot Diaz and David Byrne, from over one hundred dazzling writers in all. 257 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Travel; Travel & Places; ISBN/EAN: 9780956787613. Inventory No: 267664.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: City-Pick New York
• Publisher: Oxygen Books, Great Britain
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0956787614
• ISBN 13: 9780956787613
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel

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Synopsis

F Scott Fitzgerald journeys up Fifth Avenue Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo arrive in Greenwich Village Alistair Cooke looks out over Central Park David Byrne does the Five Boro Bike Tour Edmund White finds a city of freedoms Jan Morris recalls Manhattan 1945 Ian Frazier hears it for Brooklyn Teju Cole encounters the Statue of Liberty John Dos Passos pities the poor immigrant and over fifty other writers on New York, past and present.