Reading New York
By: John Tytell.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Tytell, John -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.; Tytell, John -- Childhood and youth.; Tytell, John -- Books and reading.; American literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.; Refugee children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.; English teachers -- United States -- Biography.; New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life.; New York (N.Y.) -- In literature.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Part biography, part memoir, part belles lettres--this wonderful book celebrates the act of reading, the writers whose work awakened the soul of a young man growing up in New York in the 1940s and 1950s, and the history of the city itself.