Author: Rebecca McClanahan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597098502
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Against the advice of family and friends, a middle-aged couple leaves their home and jobs in North Carolina to pursue a long-held desire: to live in New York City. As they struggle to find work and forge friendships in a city of strangers, Rebecca decides to take her mother's advice to "make a home wherever you land." She finds it in surprising ways: in overheard conversations on park benches and subway stations, in songs and cries sifted through apartment walls, in the oil-spilled rainbow colors of the pigeons who mate on the window air conditioner, and in encounters with street people dispensing unexpected wisdom. The 9/11 attacks and a serious cancer surgery turn her attention inward: to memories of marital affairs and separation, the deaths of mentors and friends, and to the books and poems that have always sustained her. Inner and outer landscapes merge, her life touching the lives of the now-familiar strangers. Alternating between brief vignettes and sustained narratives, Rebecca McClanahan tracks the heartbeat of New York, finding in each face she meets the cumulative loss, joy, and stubborn resilience of a city that has claimed her for its own.
In the Key of New York City
Author: Rebecca McClanahan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597098502
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Against the advice of family and friends, a middle-aged couple leaves their home and jobs in North Carolina to pursue a long-held desire: to live in New York City. As they struggle to find work and forge friendships in a city of strangers, Rebecca decides to take her mother's advice to "make a home wherever you land." She finds it in surprising ways: in overheard conversations on park benches and subway stations, in songs and cries sifted through apartment walls, in the oil-spilled rainbow colors of the pigeons who mate on the window air conditioner, and in encounters with street people dispensing unexpected wisdom. The 9/11 attacks and a serious cancer surgery turn her attention inward: to memories of marital affairs and separation, the deaths of mentors and friends, and to the books and poems that have always sustained her. Inner and outer landscapes merge, her life touching the lives of the now-familiar strangers. Alternating between brief vignettes and sustained narratives, Rebecca McClanahan tracks the heartbeat of New York, finding in each face she meets the cumulative loss, joy, and stubborn resilience of a city that has claimed her for its own.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597098502
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Against the advice of family and friends, a middle-aged couple leaves their home and jobs in North Carolina to pursue a long-held desire: to live in New York City. As they struggle to find work and forge friendships in a city of strangers, Rebecca decides to take her mother's advice to "make a home wherever you land." She finds it in surprising ways: in overheard conversations on park benches and subway stations, in songs and cries sifted through apartment walls, in the oil-spilled rainbow colors of the pigeons who mate on the window air conditioner, and in encounters with street people dispensing unexpected wisdom. The 9/11 attacks and a serious cancer surgery turn her attention inward: to memories of marital affairs and separation, the deaths of mentors and friends, and to the books and poems that have always sustained her. Inner and outer landscapes merge, her life touching the lives of the now-familiar strangers. Alternating between brief vignettes and sustained narratives, Rebecca McClanahan tracks the heartbeat of New York, finding in each face she meets the cumulative loss, joy, and stubborn resilience of a city that has claimed her for its own.
New York at Its Core
Author: Museum of the City of New York
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692982020
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Based on the award-winning, critically acclaimed exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, New York at Its Core takes readers on a whirlwind journey through the 400-year history of the five boroughs to find out how a striving village on the periphery of the Dutch trading empire became the booming metropolis that is today¿s capital of the world. New York at Its Core finds the key in four defining themes that have shaped the city since its inception: money, diversity, density, and creativity. This lavishly illustrated book features nearly 400 objects and images from the one-of-a-kind exhibition, revealing how these themes evolved and interacted to create the city we know today, a subject of fascination the world over visited by millions of people every year. Covering New York¿s entire 400-year history and inviting a look into the city¿s future, New York at Its Core chronicles the cycles of crisis and reinvention that gave rise to one of the world¿s most diverse and densely populated places, a city that has shaped the course of events for the nation and the world.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692982020
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Based on the award-winning, critically acclaimed exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, New York at Its Core takes readers on a whirlwind journey through the 400-year history of the five boroughs to find out how a striving village on the periphery of the Dutch trading empire became the booming metropolis that is today¿s capital of the world. New York at Its Core finds the key in four defining themes that have shaped the city since its inception: money, diversity, density, and creativity. This lavishly illustrated book features nearly 400 objects and images from the one-of-a-kind exhibition, revealing how these themes evolved and interacted to create the city we know today, a subject of fascination the world over visited by millions of people every year. Covering New York¿s entire 400-year history and inviting a look into the city¿s future, New York at Its Core chronicles the cycles of crisis and reinvention that gave rise to one of the world¿s most diverse and densely populated places, a city that has shaped the course of events for the nation and the world.
Comprehensive Calendar of Bicentennial Events
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Official Summary of Stock Transactions and Holdings of Officiers, Directors, and Principal Stockholders
Author: United States. Securities and Exchange Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Securities
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Securities
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Records and Briefs new York State Appellate Division
Comprehensive Calendar of Bicentennial Events
Author: American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Comprehensive Calendar of Bicentennial Events East of the Mississippi
Author: American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Synoptic Key to the Phyla, Classes, and Orders of Animals
Comprehensive Calendar of Bicentennial Events, February 1976
Author: American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Industrial Directory of New York State
Author: New York (State). Department of Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description