ISBN: 9780307767127

`The history of Broadway has been written before, but never better....The verbal energy that pours off these pages is enough to transform the hell of...Times Square into a rough-hewn heav… Meer...

`The history of Broadway has been written before, but never better....The verbal energy that pours off these pages is enough to transform the hell of...Times Square into a rough-hewn heaven, neon lit and open all night....The only thing wrong with this book is it isn`t longer.` -NEWSWEEK Nik Cohn ushers readers along the street he calls `The Heart of the World.` producing a book that is a resplendent pageant of New York`s high-and low-life. Among the characters we meet are a golden-tongued cab driver who calls himself a `collector of farces` a pickpocket with the terrifying gift of impersonating his marks a heartbreakingly beautiful Dominican tranvestite named Lush Life strippers pseudo-prophets and a disgraced political veteran of the days when the graft was still honest. Conducted by a writer with the manic energy of a sideshow barker and the full-blooded lyricism of a raucous poet, this is a bebop odyssey along the Great White Way that reaches in implication far beyond the streets of New York to document the ever-evolving mixtures that make up America itself. `A lovely, bracing book, full to bursting with juicy, tasty, rancid life. While making its bawdy way through crowded spaces ... it also travels through modern times ... wondrous.` -USA TODAY Heart of the World: `The history of Broadway has been written before, but never better....The verbal energy that pours off these pages is enough to transform the hell of...Times Square into a rough-hewn heaven, neon lit and open all night....The only thing wrong with this book is it isn`t longer.` -NEWSWEEK Nik Cohn ushers readers along the street he calls `The Heart of the World.` producing a book that is a resplendent pageant of New York`s high-and low-life. Among the characters we meet are a golden-tongued cab driver who calls himself a `collector of farces` a pickpocket with the terrifying gift of impersonating his marks a heartbreakingly beautiful Dominican tranvestite named Lush Life strippers pseudo-prophets and a disgraced political veteran of the days when the graft was still honest. Conducted by a writer with the manic energy of a sideshow barker and the full-blooded lyricism of a raucous poet, this is a bebop odyssey along the Great White Way that reaches in implication far beyond the streets of New York to document the ever-evolving mixtures that make up America itself. `A lovely, bracing book, full to bursting with juicy, tasty, rancid life. While making its bawdy way through crowded spaces ... it also travels through modern times ... wondrous.` -USA TODAY, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group<

ISBN: 9780307767127

Nik Cohn,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on 08-10-2011 EBooks Books ~~ Social Sciences~~ Sociology ~~ Urban Heart-of-the-World~~Nik-Coh… Meer...

Nik Cohn,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on 08-10-2011 EBooks Books ~~ Social Sciences~~ Sociology ~~ Urban Heart-of-the-World~~Nik-Cohn Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group<

ISBN: 9780307767127

The Heart of the World Heart-of-the-World~~Nik-Cohn U.S. History>Regional History>Regional History NOOK Book (eBook), Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

2011, ISBN: 9780307767127

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