City Lights Stories about New York
Barry, Dan
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From Dean Family Enterprise, Hopkinsville, KY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since April 21, 2023
About this Item
Book is in excellent, possibly unread condition and shows very minor edge wear. Please See Photographs; 1st Edition - 1st Printing; 5.5 X 18.19 X 8.5 millimeters; 320 pages. Seller Inventory # 4412
Bibliographic Details
Title: City Lights Stories about New York
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
About this title
With a poet's clear eye and a journalist's curiosity about how a city works, Dan Barry shows us New York as no other writer has seen it.
Evocative, intimate, piercing, and often funny, the essays in City Lights capture everyday life in the city at its most ordinary and extraordinary. Wandering the city as a columnist for The New York Times, Barry visits the denizens of the Fulton Fish Market on the eve of its closing; journeys with an obsessed guide through the secret underground of abandoned subway stops, tunnels, and aqueducts; touches down in bars, hospitals, churches, diners, pools, zoos, memorabilia-stuffed apartments, at births and funerals, the places where people gather, are welcomed, or depart; talks to the ex-athlete who caught the falling baby, the performance artist who works as a mermaid, the octogenarian dancers who find quiet joy in their partnership, and the guy who waves flags over the Cross-Bronx Expressway to wish drivers safe passage.
Along the way, Barry offers glimpses of New York's distant and recent past. He explains why the dust-coated wishbones hanging above the bar at McSorley's Old Ale House belong to the doughboy ghosts of World War I. He recalls a century of grandeur at the Plaza Hotel through the tales of longtime doormen who will soon be out of a job. He finds that an old man's quiet death opens back into a past that the man had spent his life denying. And, from the vantage of the Circle Line cruise around Manhattan, he joins tourists as they try to make sense of still-smoldering ruins in Lower Manhattan three weeks after September 11, 2001.
Each story in City Lights illuminates New York, as it was and as it is: always changing, always losing and renewing parts of itself, every street corner an opportunity for surprise and revelation.
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