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Tytell, John
ISBN: 9780375414169
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Alfred A. Knopf
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Part biography, part memoir, part belles lettres - this 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 '50s, and the history of the city itself.
Part biography, part memoir, part belles lettres - this 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 '50s, and the history of the city itself.
| ISBN | 0375414169 | | DEWEY | 810.967 | | ISBN13 | 9780375414169
(What's this?) | | Pages | 352 | | Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | ALFRED A KNOPF | | Weight (grammes) | 599 | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 217 | | Publication date | 01 Aug 2003 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | Library of Congress | 2002034014 | |
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| Pt. 1 | | "My Little Dutch Boy" | | 1 | | 1 | | Forbidden Pleasure | | 3 | | 2 | | A Lowlands Confluence | | 6 | | 3 | | Chronometricals and Horologicals | | 11 | | 4 | | King Solomon's Sons | | 16 | | 5 | | Jerusalem | | 22 | | 6 | | An Oligarch's Household | | 24 | | 7 | | A Natural Anthropologist | | 28 | | 8 | | An Amazonian Flood | | 35 | | 9 | | A Morality Tale | | 42 | | 10 | | Annihilation | | 47 | | 11 | | Safe in Holmes | | 50 | | 12 | | Dr. God | | 54 | | 13 | | Lena | | 65 | | 14 | | Le poete maudit | | 73 | | 15 | | Nincompoops and Dunderheads | | 78 | | 16 | | "Death is the mother of beauty" by Wallace Stevens | | 83 | | Pt. 2 | | Whitman's Lovers | | 97 | | 17 | | Early Erotics | | 89 | | 18 | | Elementary Education | | 94 | | 19 | | Frauke | | 97 | | 20 | | Gymnastics | | 101 | | 21 | | A Perfect Writer | | 104 | | 22 | | A Quaker Renegade | | 115 | | 23 | | Cheering Slaves | | 119 | | 24 | | American Transcendentalists | | 124 | | 25 | | Whitman's City | | 132 | | 26 | | The Daydreamer | | 140 | | 27 | | Jilted | | 150 | | | More... | | |
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