New York Sketches

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Beschreibung

<p><b>“Jewels of observation . . . A world described in such loving detail overflows with wonders: The rigorous attention in <i>Sketches</i> is a kind of re-enchantment.” —Becca Rothfeld, <i>The Washington Post</i></b></p><b> Now in a beautiful hardcover gift edition: E. B. White’s wisest and wittiest homages to his beloved, bedeviled, beguiling New York City.</b><p>For more than fifty years at The New Yorker, E. B. White came to define the ideal American prose: clear, casual, democratic, and urbane. While his classic Here Is New York captured a specific moment in the life of Manhattan, New York Sketches, the first collection of his casual pieces about the city, offers a more intimate and playful look at the city’s everyday enchantments.</p><p>Here White ranges at whim from the nesting habits of pigeons to the behavior of snails in aquariums, from the ghosts of old romance that haunt a fire escape or flower shop to the bustle of a calculator trade show on Eighth Avenue. These sketches, some less than a page long, many written for a laugh or in response to the news of the day, show us White at his most sprightly and inventive.</p><p>Newly presented in a beautiful, pocket-sized hardcover gift edition, <i>New York Sketches</i> is a diversion for every New Yorker—native, adoptive, aspiring, or far from home—and a perfect introduction to what White called “the inscrutable and lovely town.”</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781946022738

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

213 x 125 x 13 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

McNally Editions