Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (Modern Library Paperbacks)
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (766 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 037575752X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 148 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Each life in it, and each life in Wonderful Town, is the life of us all.. Here New York is every great place and every ordinary place. Wonderful Town collects superb short fiction by many of the magazine's and this country's most accomplished writers. New York City is not only The New Yorker's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood; it is the heart of American literary culture. Like all good fiction, these stories take particular places, particular people, and particular events and turn them into dramas of universal enlightenment and emotional impact
"Five Stars" according to mary fetcho. Love NY stories!. Terrific! Ethan Cooper John Cheever, Woody Allen, and Bernard Malamud wrote my favorite stories in this wonderful collection about life in New York City. Three quick thoughts: (1) While the dynamic captured by some authors seems a little dated (Dorothy Parker), most of the stories resonate with characters, experiences, and social groups that are common today in New York. (2) The collection offers 44 stories and 44 authors. This helps a reader see how these authors a. A brilliant collection Richard LeComte This collection of New York stories shows both why writers have been fascinated with the Big Apple for so long and also why The New Yorker has been the hallmark of short fiction. The collection begins with Cheever and ends with Perlman, which pretty much sums up the golden years of the magazine. The pleasures here range from a story of lingering urban dread by William Maxwell to a hilarious tale of an intellectual loser by Jonathan Franzen. Up
It's not, however, a simple matter of geography, but a kind of urban metaphysics at work. The skinny island and its four sister boroughs have continued to fascinate writers ever since, and it would be hard to find a better record of that fascination than Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker. An ocean liner stood by the Pan Am building for a while, then moved out to sea. The waves are coming straight in from the Atlantic. But in the following decades, Ross and his successors published so many classic New York stories that the real challenge, according to Remnick, was whittling down the selection: "As there is barely enough r