The Heart of the World

by	Nik Cohn

SKU: 9781784872298 Categories: Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, PA), Northeast, Travel, TRAVEL WRITING, United States Tags: America, American History, americana, british history, brooklyn, comedy, cooking, culture, documentary, drugs, dutch, economics, fashion, folklore, food, historiography, History, journalism, lunatic city, manhattan cinderella, movies, new york, pop culture, requiem a hallucination, Roman, school, social, society, sociology, the twisted city, travel non-fiction, travel writing, vertigo alley, wanderer's odyssey, Wanderlust, world history, WW2

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Nik Cohn had planned a trip around the world, but when a friend told him that Broadway is ‘the world within itself’, he started walking up the Great White Way, from Battery Park to Times Square. Escorted by a drum-playing Russian taxi driver, fuelled by duck soup and whiskey and sleeping in crackhouse hotels, Cohn encountered pickpockets, dancers, old magicians, disgraced politicians, epic storytellers, part-time messiahs, and an unforgettable transvestite called Lush Life. Hallucinogenic history, rogues’ gallery, personal odyssey, this extraordinary saga is also an extended love letter to a dream of New York now lost.

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Weight	0.318 kg
Dimensions	2.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
by	Nik Cohn
Format	Paperback
Language	English
Pages	400
Publisher	Random House
Year Published	2017-5-4
Imprint	Vintage Classics
Publication City/Country	London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10	1784872296
About The Author	Nik Cohn was brought up in Derry, Northern Ireland. His books include I Am Still the Greatest Says Johnny Angelo, Ball the Wall, The Heart of the World, Need and Triksta: Life and Death and New Orleans Rap. He also wrote the story that gave rise to Saturday Night Fever and collaborated on Rock Dreams and Twentieth Century Dreams with the artist Guy Peellaert. He lives in New York.
Review Quote	The verbal energy that pours off these pages is enough to transform the hell of places like Times Square into a roughhewn heaven, neon lit and open all night. The history of Broadway has been written before but never better…Overflowing with voluble "animal spirits," it is a feast for anyone who loves good stories. The only thing wrong with it is, it isn't longer.
Other text	Not since Damon Runyon wrote his fables of Harry the Horse, Sleepout Sam Levinksy and Lone Louie, has Broadway had a chronicler to do justice to its picaresque excess…The Heart of the World is a walk up Broadway, an imaginative leap into its past and its present. Runyon wrote fiction based loosely on fact. Cohn writes fact with the vividly colourful brush-stroke of fiction

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