Appears to
be brand new, unopened, and unread. A hardback copy of this lovely book. Not
faded or damaged in any way but dust jacket has been price clipped. Bloomsbury
Press 2002. 1st edition. A book to fire the imagination. Large format
hard cover with dust jacket. Clean,
tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Gray boards. 496 pages. Black and
white illustration. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
This is a
tale of two cities, both called 'New York'. The first is a real city, an urban
agglomeration of millions. The second is a mythic city, so rich in memory and
association and sense of place that to people everywhere it has come to seem
real: the New York of films such as "42nd Street", "Rear Window",
"King Kong", "Dead End", "The Naked City",
"Ghostbusters", "Annie Hall", "Taxi Driver", and
"Do the Right Thing". The dream city of the movies - created by more
than a century of films, since the very dawn of the medium itself - may hold
the secret to the glamour of its real counterpart. Here are the cocktail
parties and power lunches, the subway chases and opening nights, the playground
rumbles and observation-deck romances. Here is an invented Gotham, a place
designed specifically for action, drama, and adventure, a city of bright
avenues and mysterious sidestreets, of soaring towers and intimate corners,
where remarkable people do exciting, amusing, romantic, scary things. Sanders
takes the reader from the tenement to the penthouse, from New York to Hollywood
and back again, from 1896 to the present, all the while showing how the real
and mythic cities reflected, changed, and taught each other.
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