The Heart of the World

Cohn, Nik

ISBN 10: 0394568699 / ISBN 13: 9780394568690

Edité par Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1992

8vo, 371 pp. N° de réf. du vendeur 086429

Synopsis :

Book by Cohn Nik

Revue de presse: "The verbal energy that pours off these pages is enough to transform the hell of places like Times Square into a roughhewn heaven, neon lit and open all night. The history of Broadway has been written before but never better...Overflowing with voluble "animal spirits," it is a feast for anyone who loves good stories. The only thing wrong with it is, it isn't longer." (Newsweek)

"Not since Damon Runyon wrote his fables of Harry the Horse, Sleepout Sam Levinksy and Lone Louie, has Broadway had a chronicler to do justice to its picaresque excess...The Heart of the World is a walk up Broadway, an imaginative leap into its past and its present. Runyon wrote fiction based loosely on fact. Cohn writes fact with the vividly colourful brush-stroke of fiction" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Cohn's walk up Broadway is a fascinating trip for, though the Great White Way has fallen on desperate times, he manages to fit in a lot of the street's history along with his vivid stories about its sleaze-ridden present. His style is electric, crackling with one-liners" (Sunday Times)

"A kind of day trip through an X-rated Disneyland, full of hucksterism and magic and tawdry, hard-luck scenes...Cohn weaves a story retrieved from all the histories of New York: the tales of Wall Street and ward-boss politics, of theater and finery and sex, money, power." (Boston Globe)

"Here comes everybody, a cavalcade of misfits, each their own short story, and Cohn in the role of recording angel" (Independent)

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Heart of the World
Éditeur : Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date d'édition : 1992
Reliure : hardcover
Etat : Fine copy in fine dust jacket
Etat de la jaquette : Jaquette
Edition : 1st.