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Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York

Sari Botton
3.75/5 (3399 ratings)
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In 1967, Joan Didion wrote an essay called "Goodbye to All That," a work of such candid and penetrating prose that it soon became the gold standard for personal essays. Like no other story before it, DidionOCOs tale of loving and leaving New York captured the mesmerizing allure Manhattan has always had for writers, poets, and wandering spirits.
In this captivating collection, 28 writers take up DidionOCOs literary legacy by sharing their own New York stories. Their essays often begin as love stories do, with the passion of something newly discovered?the crush of subway crowds, the streets filled with manic energy, and the sudden, unblinking certainty that this is the only place on Earth where one can become exactly who she is meant to be.
They also share the grief that comes like a gut-punch, when the metropolis loses its magic and the pressures of New YorkOCOs frenetic life wear thin on even the most fervent dwellers. As friends move away, rents soar, and love?still? remains just out of reach, each writerOCOs goodbye to New York is singular and universal, like New York itself.
"With Cheryl Strayed, Dani Shapiro, Emma Straub, Ann Hood, and more."
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ISBN10:
1580054943
ISBN13:
9781580054942
kindle Asin:
B01DMZJ9NS

Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York

Sari Botton
3.75/5 (3399 ratings)
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In 1967, Joan Didion wrote an essay called "Goodbye to All That," a work of such candid and penetrating prose that it soon became the gold standard for personal essays. Like no other story before it, DidionOCOs tale of loving and leaving New York captured the mesmerizing allure Manhattan has always had for writers, poets, and wandering spirits.
In this captivating collection, 28 writers take up DidionOCOs literary legacy by sharing their own New York stories. Their essays often begin as love stories do, with the passion of something newly discovered?the crush of subway crowds, the streets filled with manic energy, and the sudden, unblinking certainty that this is the only place on Earth where one can become exactly who she is meant to be.
They also share the grief that comes like a gut-punch, when the metropolis loses its magic and the pressures of New YorkOCOs frenetic life wear thin on even the most fervent dwellers. As friends move away, rents soar, and love?still? remains just out of reach, each writerOCOs goodbye to New York is singular and universal, like New York itself.
"With Cheryl Strayed, Dani Shapiro, Emma Straub, Ann Hood, and more."
"
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1580054943
ISBN13:
9781580054942
kindle Asin:
B01DMZJ9NS

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