«This island that floats on river water like an iceberg of diamonds, call it New York».
To those who travel through it with attentive eyes, New York tells the story of a specific century, the twentieth century: what ideas he believed in, what evils he suffered from, what dream of happiness he chased. Walking between the Lower East Side and Greenwich Village, or cycling up Broadway to Times Square, or sailing along the island by ferry from Harlem to the Battery, is like witnessing an epic that was born in the age of the transatlantic and the great migrations, overcomes the roaring years, the rebellious years, the years of opulence, and ends one morning at the beginning of the millennium, the day in 2001 when someone imagined they could destroy New York. But a city is not just made up of places: it is the people with their feelings, their relationships and desires that give it its soul. And New York - Fitzgerald says in the story that opens this collection - is not the city of those who were born there, but that of those who desired it, and had to fight to be part of it. Paolo Cognetti has been exploring the streets and stories of the Big Apple for years, and gives us, with this renewed and expanded anthology, a precious literary compass for our very personal journey. New York, as we know, is the city of a thousand lights and a thousand voices. We all believe we know it very well, so much so that when we get there for the first time we feel like we're going back. For this reason, telling New York means first of all telling a movement: desire, disillusionment, encounter, madness, discovery, solitude (no one is as alone as those who are alone in New York), but also that antidote to loneliness which is Love. The stories in this book, written by the greatest names in world literature, tell about this. Their unforgettable characters - the beautiful blonde of Dorothy Parker, the other blonde, less beautiful but with a big heart, of Joseph Mitchell, that lanky Jelly who competes with rhymes in the street to get a lunch, or Pier Paolo Pasolini , in velvet trousers and suede shoes, wandering alone through the darkest areas of the port – make up the din of shouts, arguments, protests, pleas, declarations of love that are the music of New York. «A place to hide, where to get lost or find yourself, where to have a dream in which you have proof that perhaps, after all, you are not an ugly duckling, but you are wonderful, worthy of love», as Truman Capote writes.
«This island that floats on river water like an iceberg of diamonds, call it New York».
To those who travel through it with attentive eyes, New York tells the story of a specific century, the twentieth century: what ideas he believed in, what evils he suffered from, what dream of happiness he chased. Walking between the Lower East Side and Greenwich Village, or cycling up Broadway to Times Square, or sailing along the island by ferry from Harlem to the Battery, is like witnessing an epic that was born in the age of the transatlantic and the great migrations, overcomes the roaring years, the rebellious years, the years of opulence, and ends one morning at the beginning of the millennium, the day in 2001 when someone imagined they could destroy New York. But a city is not just made up of places: it is the people with their feelings, their relationships and desires that give it its soul. And New York - Fitzgerald says in the story that opens this collection - is not the city of those who were born there, but that of those who desired it, and had to fight to be part of it. Paolo Cognetti has been exploring the streets and stories of the Big Apple for years, and gives us, with this renewed and expanded anthology, a precious literary compass for our very personal journey. New York, as we know, is the city of a thousand lights and a thousand voices. We all believe we know it very well, so much so that when we get there for the first time we feel like we're going back. For this reason, telling New York means first of all telling a movement: desire, disillusionment, encounter, madness, discovery, solitude (no one is as alone as those who are alone in New York), but also that antidote to loneliness which is Love. The stories in this book, written by the greatest names in world literature, tell about this. Their unforgettable characters - the beautiful blonde of Dorothy Parker, the other blonde, less beautiful but with a big heart, of Joseph Mitchell, that lanky Jelly who competes with rhymes in the street to get a lunch, or Pier Paolo Pasolini , in velvet trousers and suede shoes, wandering alone through the darkest areas of the port – make up the din of shouts, arguments, protests, pleas, declarations of love that are the music of New York. «A place to hide, where to get lost or find yourself, where to have a dream in which you have proof that perhaps, after all, you are not an ugly duckling, but you are wonderful, worthy of love», as Truman Capote writes.
«This island that floats on river water like an iceberg of diamonds, call it New York».
To those who travel through it with attentive eyes, New York tells the story of a specific century, the twentieth century: what ideas he believed in, what evils he suffered from, what dream of happiness he chased. Walking between the Lower East Side and Greenwich Village, or cycling up Broadway to Times Square, or sailing along the island by ferry from Harlem to the Battery, is like witnessing an epic that was born in the age of the transatlantic and the great migrations, overcomes the roaring years, the rebellious years, the years of opulence, and ends one morning at the beginning of the millennium, the day in 2001 when someone imagined they could destroy New York. But a city is not just made up of places: it is the people with their feelings, their relationships and desires that give it its soul. And New York - Fitzgerald says in the story that opens this collection - is not the city of those who were born there, but that of those who desired it, and had to fight to be part of it. Paolo Cognetti has been exploring the streets and stories of the Big Apple for years, and gives us, with this renewed and expanded anthology, a precious literary compass for our very personal journey. New York, as we know, is the city of a thousand lights and a thousand voices. We all believe we know it very well, so much so that when we get there for the first time we feel like we're going back. For this reason, telling New York means first of all telling a movement: desire, disillusionment, encounter, madness, discovery, solitude (no one is as alone as those who are alone in New York), but also that antidote to loneliness which is Love. The stories in this book, written by the greatest names in world literature, tell about this. Their unforgettable characters - the beautiful blonde of Dorothy Parker, the other blonde, less beautiful but with a big heart, of Joseph Mitchell, that lanky Jelly who competes with rhymes in the street to get a lunch, or Pier Paolo Pasolini , in velvet trousers and suede shoes, wandering alone through the darkest areas of the port – make up the din of shouts, arguments, protests, pleas, declarations of love that are the music of New York. «A place to hide, where to get lost or find yourself, where to have a dream in which you have proof that perhaps, after all, you are not an ugly duckling, but you are wonderful, worthy of love», as Truman Capote writes.
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