num_pages: 288
description: Winner of a Foreword IndieFab Book of the Year AwardIn 1967 Joan Didion wrote an essay called Goodbye to All That  a work of such candid and penetrating prose that it soon became the gold standard for personal essays. Like no other story before it Didions tale of loving and leaving New York captured the mesmerizing allure Manhattan has always had for writers poets and wandering spirits.In this captivating collection 28 writers take up Didions literary legacy by sharing their own New York stories. Their essays often begin as love stories do with the passion of something newly discoveredthe crush of subway crowds the streets filled with manic energy and the certainty that this is the only place on Earth where one can become exactly who she is meant to be.They also share the grief that comes when the metropolis loses its magic and the pressures of New Yorks frenetic life wear thin on even the most fervent dwellers. As friends move away rents soar and lovestill remains just out of reach each writers goodbye to New York is singular and universal like New York itself.With Cheryl Strayed Dani Shapiro Emma Straub Ann Hood and more.
language: English
title: Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York
publisher: Seal Press