Zusatztext "E.B. White's love letter to New York. AMNY 's Books Every New Yorker Should Read" "Just to dip into this miraculous essayto experience the wonderful lightness and momentum of its prose! its supremely casual air and surprisingly tight knitis to find oneself going ahead and rereading it all.White's homage feels as fresh as fifty years ago." John Updike New York was the most exciting! most civilized! most congenial city in the world when this book was written. It's the finest portrait ever painted of the city at the height of its glory.Russell Baker The wittiest essay! and one of the most perceptive! ever done on the city. The New Yorker Part reverie! part lament and part exultation! the essay has long been recommended by Manhattanophiles as the best sketch ever drawn of the place. But since September 11! 2002! several sentences near the endsentences 55 years oldresound with a prescience so eerie they bear repeating. 'The city! for the first time in its long history! is destructible!' White writes. 'A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy! burn the towers! crumble the bridges! turn the underground passages into lethal chambers! cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now: in the sound of jets overhead! in the black headlines of the latest edition.' The Los Angeles Times a masterpiece of travel writing. This edition contains an introduction by White's stepson! Roger Angell! himself a longtime New Yorker writer and the author of a number of best-selling books about baseball. After Sept. 11! readers will find this book touching! and prescient! in striking ways. Consider this paragraph: 'All dwellers in cities must live with the stubborn fact of annihilation; in New York the fact is somewhat more concentrated because of the concentration of the city itself! and because! of all targets! New York has a certain clear priority. In the mind of whatever perverted dreamer might loose the lightning! New York must hold a steady! irresistible charm.' The charm isn't just the city. It is also the utterly perfect prose of E.B. White.Lousiville Courier-Journal White epitomized the lucid and penetrating essayistic voice so treasured at the New Yorker ! an impeccable style employed to powerful effect in this exquisitely precise contemplation of the New York City of his youth! and! by extrapolation! of humankind at large. Written in 1948! this witty and perceptive praise song to New York is a classic. Booklist ! February 1! 2004 Informationen zum Autor E. B. White; Introduction by Roger Angell Klappentext Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker calls it "the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city..Mass hysteria is a terrible force, yet New Yorkers seems always to escape it by some tiny margin: they sit in stalled subways without claustrophobia, they extricate themselves from panic situations by some lucky wisecrack, they meet confusion and congestion with patience and grita sort of perpetual muddling through. Every facility is inadequatethe hospitals and schools and playgrounds are overcrowded, the express highways are feverish, the unimproved highways and bridges are bottlenecks; there is not enough air and not enough light, and there is usually either too much heat or too little. But the city makes up for its hazards and deficiencies by supplying its citizens with massive doses of a supplementary vitaminthe sense of belonging to something unique, cosmopolitan, mighty and unparalleled.Manhattan has be...

"E.B. White's love letter to New York.” —AMNY’s “Books Every New Yorker Should Read"

"Just to dip into this miraculous essay—to experience the wonderful lightness and momentum of its prose, its supremely casual air and surprisingly tight knit—is to find oneself going ahead and rereading it all.White’s homage feels as fresh as fifty years ago." —John Updike

“New York was the most exciting, most civilized, most congenial city in the world when this book was written. It’s the finest portrait ever painted of the city at the height of its glory.”—Russell Baker

“The wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.”—The New Yorker

 “Part reverie, part lament and part exultation, the essay has long been recommended by Manhattanophiles as the best sketch ever drawn of the place. But since September 11, 2002, several sentences near the end—sentences 55 years old—resound with a prescience so eerie they bear repeating. 'The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible,' White writes. 'A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now: in the sound of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition.'”—The Los Angeles Times

“… a masterpiece of travel writing. This edition contains an introduction by White's stepson, Roger Angell, himself a longtime *New Yorker *writer and the author of a number of best-selling books about baseball. After Sept. 11, readers will find this book touching, and prescient, in striking ways. Consider this paragraph: 'All dwellers in cities must live with the stubborn fact of annihilation; in New York the fact is somewhat more concentrated because of the concentration of the city itself, and because, of all targets, New York has a certain clear priority. In the mind of whatever perverted dreamer might loose the lightning, New York must hold a steady, irresistible charm.' The charm isn't just the city. It is also the utterly perfect prose of E.B. White.”—Lousiville Courier-Journal

“White epitomized the lucid and penetrating essayistic voice so treasured at the New Yorker, an impeccable style employed to powerful effect in this exquisitely precise contemplation of the New York City of his youth, and, by extrapolation, of humankind at large. Written in 1948, this witty and perceptive praise song to New York is a classic.”
—Booklist, February 1, 2004

Autorentext

E. B. White; Introduction by Roger Angell

Klappentext

Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker calls it "the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.

Zusammenfassung
Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker calls it "the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.

Leseprobe
hellip;.Mass hysteria is a terrible force, yet New Yorkers seems always to escape it by some tiny margin: they sit in stalled subways without claustrophobia, they extricate themselves from panic situations by some lucky wisecrack, they meet confusion and congestion with patience and grit—a sort of perpetual muddling through. Every facility is inadequate—the hospitals and schools and playgrounds are overcrowded, the express hi…