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The Heart of the World

By Cohn , Nik

Book information

Publisher
Random House;Vintage Digital
Year
2019
ISBN
9781473571709, 1473571707
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4024458 bytes)
Pages
400 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century;CohnNik -- Travel -- New York (State) -- New York;BroaNik;New York (State) -- New York;New York (State)Travel;History;Cohn

Description

Nik Cohn had planned a trip around the world, but when a friend told him that Broadway is 'the world within itself', he started walking up the Great White Way, from Battery Park to Times Square. Escorted by a drum-playing Russian taxi driver, fuelled by duck soup and whiskey and sleeping in crackhouse hotels, Cohn encountered pickpockets, dancers, old magicians, disgraced politicians, epic storytellers, part-time messiahs, and an unforgettable transvestite called Lush Life. Hallucinogenic history, rogues' gallery, personal odyssey, this extraordinary saga is also an extended love letter to a dream of New York now lost.

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