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City Lights: Stories about New York
Dan Barry
#UB9262
Hardcover, 297 pages; 2007
$20.76
This collection of New York Times "About New York" columns from 2003 to 2006 captures the essence of America's biggest city via intimate, stirring portraits of New York's people and places. As he explores the everyday life of the city, Dan Barry investigates the origins of the dusty wishbones hanging in McSorley's Old Ale House; he salutes a humble businessman who rescued a drowning bather off Coney Island; he reminisces with the graduating class of Stuyvesant High School, located just north of Ground Zero. Somehow blending a tourist's sense of wonder with a native's brusque city pride, these brief, behind-the-scenes glimpses of New York life are by turns fascinating, funny, and poignant. Together, they offer poetic evidence of the resilience of the city and its inhabitants.
(AG)
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