Gone to New York
Subtitle: adventures in the city
By: Ian Frazier
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar/Straus/Giroux
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780374281632
Subjects: Description and travel; Anecdotes
Description: The author introduces another side of New York, including a man who climbed the World Trade Center and an eighty-three-year old typewriter repairman, among other characters.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Jamaica Kincaid; title: Antipodes; title: Rental; title: Cops; title: Canal Street; title: Bumpin'n; title: Friend of the building; title: Bags in trees; title: To Mr. Winslow; title: Bags in trees II; title: On the floor; title: Summer rules; title: Street scene; title: In the stacks; title: Take the F; title: All that glitter; title: Someplace in Queens; title: Typewriter man; title: Sink or swim; title: The mornings after; title: Bags in trees: a retrospective; title: Route 3; title: Out of Ohio.