Gone To New York: Adventures In The City

Description

In the early 1970s, the writer Ian Frazier left a small town in Ohio to move to a loft in lower Manhattan. Gone to New York is Frazier's account of the city over the thirty years he's lived there, a book as full of vitality and charm as the city it describes. It features street scenes from every corner of the metropolis, where every block is an event and where the denizens are larger than life. Meet the man who climbed the World Trade Center, learn the location of Manhattan's antipodes, and follow Frazier down Canal Street in the mid 1970s, to Brooklyn in the 1980s and aboard the F train just last year.

Ian Frazier is the author of Great Plains (also available from Granta Books), among other books. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

"* 'Frazier is an incredible writer' Los Angeles Times * 'A writer of uncommon grace and subtlety' Chicago Tribune * 'Whether on a paved shore in Harlem or in the middle of Montana, Frazier writes with unpretentious lyricism and comedy' Minneapolis Star Tribune * 'Frazier is a great storyteller [who] writes history with passion and delight' Newsweek * 'One of America's funniest writers' Vogue"