City Lights by Dan Barry
Dan Barry approaches New York from every angle, finding surprise in the familiar, beauty in the rusted, ruined, or paved-over, and intimacy between strangers thrown together by circumstance. Whether visiting the Fulton Fish Market on the day of its closing, watching octogenarian dancers as they re-capture the grace of their youths, or talking to cops, rabbis, hatmakers, bartenders, doctors, boat captains, cabdrivers, engineers, barbers, and other about their jobs and lives, Barry brings the eye of the journalist and the soul of a poet to everything he writes.
* Dan Barry sees the city with the wide eyes of a visitor..and a native's sceptical squint.....A tourist's delight, and a true son's healthy sense of self deprecation. from the foreword by Alice McDermott * Poignant and inspiring....beguiling words to dream by. The New York Times Book Review
Dan Barry published The New York Times' weekly column About New York from June 2003 to November 2006, and now writes This Land, a nationwide column for the paper. He was a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2006 for his coverage of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and life in New York City, and he shared the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting while working at the Providence Journal. He's also the author of Pull Me Up, a memoir. He was born in New York and raised on Long Island, and now resides in Maplewood, New Jersey, with his family.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780312538910 |
| ISBN 10 | 031253891X |
| Title | City Lights |
| Author | Dan Barry |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Griffin Publishing |
| Year published | 2009-03-31 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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