Brooklyn Is Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes |
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Author:
| Agee, James |
Preface by:
| Lethem, Jonathan |
ISBN: | 978-0-8232-2492-0 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2005 |
Publisher: | Fordham University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $25.95 |
Book Description:
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For the first time in book form--a great writer's classic celebration of the essence of Brooklyn. Propulsive, lyrical, jazzy, and tender, its pitch-perfect descriptions endure even as Brooklyn changes; Agee's essay is a New York classic. Resonant with the rhythms of Hart Crane, Walt Whitman, and Thomas Wolfe, it takes its place alongside Alfred Kazin's A Walker in the City as a great writer's love-song to Brooklyn, and alongside E. B. White's Here Is New York as an...
More DescriptionFor the first time in book form--a great writer's classic celebration of the essence of Brooklyn.
Propulsive, lyrical, jazzy, and tender, its pitch-perfect descriptions endure even as Brooklyn changes; Agee's essay is a New York classic. Resonant with the rhythms of Hart Crane, Walt Whitman, and Thomas Wolfe, it takes its place alongside Alfred Kazin's A Walker in the City as a great writer's love-song to Brooklyn, and alongside E. B. White's Here Is New York as an essential statement of the place so many call home.