Ebook {Epub PDF} Gone to New York: Adventures in the City by Ian Frazier

Learn the location of Manhattan's antipodes, and meander the length of Route 3 to New Jersey. Like his literary forbears Joseph Mitchell and A.J. Liebling, Frazier, in his bewitching, inimitable voice, makes us fall in love with America's greatest city all over again, the way he did, arriving as a /5().  · Frazier (Great Plains) chronicles his relationship with New York City in this collection of essays from the New Yorker, the Atlantic and elsewhere. Kincaid's foreword celebrates her friend's identification with Ohio, but despite the formative importance of his hometown and state, Frazier clearly develops a particular, fond attachment to all the places he comes to know/5(3). Gone to New York: adventures in the city Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Gone to New York: adventures in the city by Frazier, Ian. Publication date Topics Frazier, Ian Publisher City New York Donor marincountyfreelibrary Edition.

Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Gone To New York: Adventures In The City by Ian Frazier (Paperback, ) at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products! Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, a city more downtown than up, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. Meet landlord extraordinaire Zvi Hugo Segal, and the man who climbed the World Trade Center, and an eighty-three-year-old typewriter repairman whose shop on Fulton Street has drawers full of umlauts. GONE TO NEW YORK is Ian Frazier's paean to that city. Published in , it's a series of twenty-three essays penned roughly between and I've been to New York City as a tourist only once. (Several visits to Long Island on business through JFK Airport don't count.) I can understand Frazier's attachment to the place.

Gone to New York: Adventures in the City. Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. Meet landlord extraordinaire Zvi Hugo Segal, and the man who scaled the World Trade Center. Learn the location of Manhattan's antipodes, and meander the length of Route 3 to New Jersey. Frazier (Great Plains) chronicles his relationship with New York City in this collection of essays from the New Yorker, the Atlantic and elsewhere. Kincaid's foreword celebrates her friend's identification with Ohio, but despite the formative importance of his hometown and state, Frazier clearly develops a particular, fond attachment to all the places he comes to know. Learn the location of Manhattan's antipodes, and meander the length of Route 3 to New Jersey. Like his literary forbears Joseph Mitchell and A.J. Liebling, Frazier, in his bewitching, inimitable voice, makes us fall in love with America's greatest city all over again, the way he did, arriving as a young man from Hudson, Ohio.