Name: Gone to new York: Adventures in the City
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Author: Jamaica Kincaid
ISBN: 9780312425043

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Gone to new York: Adventures in the City

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ian Frazier

Preface by

Jamaica Kincaid

Publisher

Picador

Year

2006

Language

English

Pages

203

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN

031242504X

ISBN13

9780312425043

Edition No.

Synopsis "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. Like his literary forebears Joseph Mitchell and A. J. Liebling, Frazier makes us fall in love with America's greatest city all over again.

Jamaica Kincaid

(Preface by)

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Jamaica Kincaid (born Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson in 1949, Saint John's, Antigua and Barbuda) is a Caribbean-American writer and essayist known for her lyrical style and focus on themes such as identity, colonialism, and family relationships. At 17, she moved to New York, where she worked as an au pair and later adopted the pseudonym Jamaica Kincaid. She collaborated with The New Yorker magazine from 1976 to 1995. Currently, she resides in Vermont and has been a professor at Harvard University

Among her most notable works are Annie John (1985), A Small Place (1988), Lucy (1990), The Autobiography of My Mother (1995), My Brother (1997), and Mr. Potter (2002). Her work has been translated into multiple languages and has received awards such as the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Prix Femina Étranger. Kincaid is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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