[bksvol-discuss] Re: Wishlist Request
- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:13:28 -0700
Hi, Kelby, sounds very interesting indeed, but I'll bet you any city you
care to name will have such wonders and terrors. Can you imagine the perils
of being a free person of color in New Orleans being in peril of losing
one's freedom and being sold down the river prior to the Civil war or the
corruption one has heard about in the present day of this city? Just the
cultural mix is fascinating. Talk about fodder for writers of an imaginative
bent. I live near L.A. and I think of Raymond Chandler's books and those
other authors who have tried to deal with L.A. and Hollywood in their books.
I'm happy to say I've never dealt with the dark stuff myself, but I wouldn't
want to be a homeless person out on the streets. The book you want to add
sounds really interesting. Regards, Kim.
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417 pages
Synopsis: Who among us cannot testify to the possibilities of the night?
To the mysterious, shadowed intersections of music, smoke, money, alcohol,
desire, and dream? The hours between dusk and dawn are when we are most
urgently free, when high meets low, when tongues wag, when wallets loosen,
when uptown, downtown, rich, poor, black, white, gay, straight, male, and
female so often chance upon one another. Night is when we are more likely
to carouse, fornicate, fall in love, murder, or ourselves fall prey. And if
there is one place where the grandness, danger, and enchantment of night
have been lived more than anywhere else -- lived in fact for over 350 years
-- it is, of course, New York CityddFrom glittering opulence to sordid
violence, from sweetest romance to grinding lust, critic and historian Mark
Caldwell chronicles, with both intimate detail and epic sweep, the story of
New York nightlife from 1643 to the present, featuring the famous, the
notorious, and the unknown who have long walked the city's streets and lived
its history. New York Night ranges from the leafy forests at Manhattan's
tip, where Indians and Europeans first met, to the candlelit taverns of old
New Amsterdam, to the theaters, brothels, and saloon prizefights of the
Civil War era, to the lavish entertainments of the Gilded Age, to the
speakeasies and nightclubs of the century past, and even to the strip clubs
and glamour restaurants of tdddWe see madams and boxers, murderers and
drunks, soldiers, singers, layabouts, and thieves. We see the swaggering
"Sporting Menea"the fearless slatterns, the socially prominent rakes, the
chorus girls, the impresarios, the gangsters, the club hoppers, and the
dead. We see none other than the great Charles Dickens himself taken to a
tavern of outrageous repute and be so shocked by what he witnesses that he
must be helped to the door. We see human beings making their nighttime bet
with New York City. Some of these stories are tragic, some comic, but all
paint a resilient metropolis of the nightddIn New York, uniquely among the
world's great cities, the hours of darkness have always brought opposites
together, with results both creative and violent. This is a book that is
filled with intrigue, crime, sex, violence, music, dance, and the blur of
neon-lit crowds along ribbons of pavement.
Technology, too, figures in the drama, with such inventions as gas and
electric light, photography, rapid transit, and the scratchy magic of radio
appearing one by one to collaborate in a nocturnal world of inexhaustible
variety and excitementddationew York Night will delight history buffs, New
Yorkers in love with their home, and anyone who wants to see how human
nocturnal behavior has changed and not changed as the world's greatest city
has come into being. New York Night is a spellbinding social history of the
day's dark hours, when work ends, secrets reveal themselves, and the
unimaginable becomes real.
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