First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century

Lida, David

ISBN 10: 1594483787 / ISBN 13: 9781594483783

Published by Penguin Publishing Group, 2009

Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G1594483787I2N00

Synopsis:

The definitive book on Mexico City: a vibrant, seductive, and paradoxical metropolis-the second-biggest city in the world, and a vision of our urban future.

First Stop in the New World is a street-level panorama of Mexico City, the largest metropolis in the western hemisphere and the cultural capital of the Spanish-speaking world. Journalist David Lida expertly captures the kaleidoscopic nature of life in a city defined by pleasure and danger, ecstatic joy and appalling tragedy-hanging in limbo between the developed and underdeveloped worlds. With this literary-journalist account, he establishes himself as the ultimate chronicler of this bustling megalopolis at a key moment in its-and our-history.

About the Author: David Lida has lived in Mexico City for more than fifteen years and works as a journalist in Spanish and English. In Mexico, he wrote and edited for DF, Mexico City's equivalent of The New Yorker. In the United States, his work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Culture+Travel, The Forward, Interview, Gourmet, and others.

Bibliographic Details

Title: First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, ...
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Paperback
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket