First Stop in the New World by David Lida

First Stop in the New World by David Lida

The definitive book on Mexico City: a vibrant, seductive, and paradoxical metropolis-the second-biggest city in the world, and a vision of our urban future.

First Stop in the New World is a street-level panorama of Mexico City, the largest metropolis in the western hemisphere and the cultural capital of the Spanish-speaking world. Journalist David Lida expertly captures the kaleidoscopic nature of life in a city defined by pleasure and danger, ecstatic joy and appalling tragedy-hanging in limbo between the developed and underdeveloped worlds. With this literary-journalist account, he establishes himself as the ultimate chronicler of this bustling megalopolis at a key moment in its-and our-history.

David Lida is the author of four books, the most well-known of which is the trip memoir First Stop in the New World (Riverhead, 2009). His first novel, One Life, will be published in Spanish in Mexico in 2016. He has worked as a journalist for more than two decades, mostly in the United States. and Mexico, as well as journals in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Peru. His base of operations is in Mexico City.

He works as an investigator for lawyers in the United States when he is not writing. They are defending Latin Americans facing the death penalty.

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ISBN 13	9781594483783
ISBN 10	1594483787
Title	First Stop in the New World
Author	David Lida
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2009-06-02
Number of pages	384
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