| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 337 pages : maps ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"A Holt Paperback." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-322) and index. |
| Contents |
The grandfather of literary Brooklyn : Walt Whitman -- The street was everything : Henry Miller -- Out of the fray : Hart Crane and Marianne Moore -- A long way from New York : Thomas Wolfe -- The longest journey : Daniel Fuchs, Bernard Malamud, Alfred Kazin -- The great migration : Richard Wright -- The birth of Brooklyn cool : "February house" and Truman Capote -- The shadow of the war : William Styron and Sophie's choice -- Underground rumbles : Norman Mailer -- The postwar chill : Arthur Miller, Pete Hamill, Hubert Selby, Jr -- Into the thickets of urban crisis : Jonathan Lethem, L.J. Davis, Paula Fox -- A hint of things to come : Paul Auster, a renaissance in Fort Greene -- A literary capital : the Brooklyn of today. |
| Subject |
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- In literature.
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American literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.
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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life.
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| ISBN |
9780805089868 |
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0805089861 |
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