Here Is New York
Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New...
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Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker calls it "the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781892145024 (1892145022)
ASIN: 1892145022
Publish date: January 1st 2000
Publisher: Little Bookroom
Pages no: 58
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
American,
Geography,
New York,
Cities
Powerful short book that pulled me along from the first sentence all the way to be battered about the head near the end. Others have noted it in reviews, I believe maybe even on here. Noted the mention of the planes. And the destruction. The mention of how New Yorkers fear the planes, collapsing bui...
E. B. White shares his vision of New York City, a world of contrasts. My favorite image from this short book is that he describes in the last paragraph of the book is that of an old willow tree growing in an interior garden. He says it "symbolizes the city: life under difficulties, growth against od...