Goodbye to All That Writers on Loving and Leaving New York |
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| Editor:
| Botton, Sari |
| ISBN: | 978-1-58005-495-9 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Basic Books
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| Imprint: | Seal Press |
| Book Format: | Digital download |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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Winner of a Foreword IndieFab Book of the Year Award In 1967, Joan Didion wrote an essay called
Goodbye to All That, a work of such candid and penetrating prose that it soon became the gold standard for personal essays. Like no other story before it, Didion’s tale of loving and leaving New York captured the mesmerizing allure Manhattan has always had for writers, poets, and wandering spirits. In this captivating collection, 28 writers take up...
More DescriptionWinner of a Foreword IndieFab Book of the Year Award
In 1967, Joan Didion wrote an essay called Goodbye to All That, a work of such candid and penetrating prose that it soon became the gold standard for personal essays. Like no other story before it, Didion’s tale of loving and leaving New York captured the mesmerizing allure Manhattan has always had for writers, poets, and wandering spirits.
In this captivating collection, 28 writers take up Didion’s literary legacy by sharing their own New York stories. Their essays often begin as love stories do, with the passion of something newly discoveredthe crush of subway crowds, the streets filled with manic energy, and the certainty that this is the only place on Earth where one can become exactly who she is meant to be.
They also share the grief that comes when the metropolis loses its magic and the pressures of New York’s frenetic life wear thin on even the most fervent dwellers. As friends move away, rents soar, and lovestill remains just out of reach, each writer’s goodbye to New York is singular and universal, like New York itself.
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