Novel set in 1950s HOLLYWOOD and EALING (London)
city-pick New York
Location(s): New York City (NYC)
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Various
New York is one of the most exciting and pulsating cities on earth. Here over seventy dazzling writers celebrate the richness and diversity of this amazing metropolis – the latest in this unique series featuring the best-ever writing on favourite World cities. F Scott Fitzgerald journeys up Fifth Avenue … Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo arrive in Greenwich Village … Alistair Cooke looks out over Central Park … David Byrne does the Five Boro Bike Tour … Edmund White finds a city of freedoms… Jan Morris recalls Manhattan 1945 … Ian Frazier hears it for Brooklyn … Teju Cole encounters the Statue of Liberty … John Dos Passos pities the poor immigrant … and much, much more.
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