New York: A Serendipiter's Journey
The mannequins in store windows come alive during this unusual voyage through New York, and so do the charwomen who rule Wall Street by night. New York is a city with 5,000 prostitutes; 200,000 stray cats; and one chauffeur who has a chauffeur. Each day New Yorkers guzzle about 460,000 gallons of beer, swallow 3,500,000 pounds of meat and pull 21 miles of dental floss through their teeth. New York has waterfront cats, Bohemian cats, boss cats, and, logically, a cat psychiatrist. There are plenty of pigeons for the hawks who prey on them from the peaks of skyscrapers. There have been a great many books on New York -- but none like this. Gay Talese and Marvin Lichtner have given us a view that makes of the great city a new and very different place. |
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