Open City #16 (Open City)
Publisher: Grove Press, Open City Books
Published: December 12, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781890447304
Subjects: Books & Reading; Literary Criticism; Poetry; Anthologies (multiple authors); General; Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors)
First sentence: OH, IF YOU WERE A STUPID, FILTHY NEW YORK PIGEON, DULLED to its citizens and living off the scraps of the city, you might fly over the government ponds and tennis courts, over the reservoir, through the meadows and softball diamonds and perch yourself on a section of black wall that rings Central Park and marks the beginning of that reliable grid known as the Upper East Side where, sadly, our story begins.