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Willie Morris |
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Biography & Autobiography · Language Arts & Disciplines · Literary Criticism |
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Professional Reviews
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Hardwick, Elizabeth, New York Times Book Review: "A miraculous light-filled world....A star-crossed romance on the boulevard of broken dreams....A wondrous album indeed." |
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Book Editions
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Format: Paperback, 408
Publisher: Back Bay Books (November 01, 1994)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 1"(d), 0.9 lbs.
ISBN: 9780316583985 |
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In New York Days, the long-awaited sequel to the prize-winning North Toward Home, Willie Morris recalls his triumphant, exciting, and ultimately devastating years as the youngest ever editor-in-chief of Harper's, America's oldest magazine, when he was at the center of the nation's stunning cosmos of writing, publishing, politics, and the arts. It was the 1960s, when New York City was a place "throbbing with possibility" and "in which everyone seemed to know everyone else and where everything of importance seemed to happen first". These were Willie Morris's New York days - with William Styron, David Halberstam, Woody Allen, Bobby Kennedy, Truman Capote, Shirley MacLaine, George Plimpton, Leonard Bernstein, and the other leading figures of the time. For he knew them all: the writers, the poets, the intellectuals, the editors, the actresses, the tycoons, the detectives, the athletes, and not a few fakirs and charlatans. He wined with Sinatra at the Players Club and eavesdropped in the trattorias on the Mob; sa |
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