| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “NYC”
books tagged “NYC”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
English
-
AIA Guide to New York Cityby Elliot Willensky, Norval WhiteISBN 0156036002 (0-15-603600-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'AIA Guide to New York City'Book summary:Since the AIA Guide to New York City was first published in 1967, it has been recognized as the ultimate guide to the metropolis's buildings, in all five boroughs -- Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island -- from nineteenth-century brownstones and tenements to modern high-rise apartments and museums. The latest edition of this urban classic takes a fresh look at the architectural treasures that define New York -- from its most characteristic landmarks to its less famous local favorites.
To prepare this edition -- the first revision since 1987 -- Norval White has visited and revisited more than 5,000 buildings, making this by far the most complete guide of its kind. This generously illustrated handbook presents the structures of the New York City--from the magnificent to the obscure -- in over 3,000 new photographs, more than 130 new maps, and hundreds of revised and new entries. Beyond the skyscrapers and historical buildings, the guide also leads the way to the city's bridges, parks, and public monuments.
From the tip of the Empire State Building to the brownstones in Brooklyn, the AIA Guide to New York City reveals how the city's spirit, fortitude, and character are captured and expressed in its architecture. Thoughtful and humorous descriptions include fascinating bits of local information that bring the city's history to life, telling the stories behind the bricks and mortar. Together, the maps, photographs, and expert critiques invite you on a special grand tour of the city at your own pace.
This guide is a definitive record of New York's architectural heritage and provides a compact, authoritative directory for lovers of New York City all over the world. Its portability and encyclopedic quality make it an ideal traveling companion for any walker in the city. For the sightseer, the architect, or anyone on a casual stroll, the AIA Guide to New York City is the book to grab on your way out the door. [via]More editions of AIA Guide to New York City:
- Aia Guide to New York City: ISBN 0812931076 (0-8129-3107-6)
Softcover, Times Books - AIA Guide to New York City: ISBN 002626580X (0-02-626580-X)
Hardcover, Macmillan - Aia Guide to New York City: ISBN 0151040400 (0-15-104040-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt - AIA Guide to New York City: ISBN 0156036002 (0-15-603600-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
- Aia Guide to New York City: ISBN 0812931076 (0-8129-3107-6)
-
AIA Guide to New York City : New York Chapter, American Institute of Architectsby Norval White, Elliot WillenskyISBN 0812931068 (0-8129-3106-8)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'AIA Guide to New York City : New York Chapter, American Institute of Architects'Book summary:Since the AIA Guide to New York City was first published in 1967, it has been recognized as the ultimate guide to the metropolis's buildings, in all five boroughs -- Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island -- from nineteenth-century brownstones and tenements to modern high-rise apartments and museums. The latest edition of this urban classic takes a fresh look at the architectural treasures that define New York -- from its most characteristic landmarks to its less famous local favorites.
To prepare this edition -- the first revision since 1987 -- Norval White has visited and revisited more than 5,000 buildings, making this by far the most complete guide of its kind. This generously illustrated handbook presents the structures of the New York City--from the magnificent to the obscure -- in over 3,000 new photographs, more than 130 new maps, and hundreds of revised and new entries. Beyond the skyscrapers and historical buildings, the guide also leads the way to the city's bridges, parks, and public monuments.
From the tip of the Empire State Building to the brownstones in Brooklyn, the AIA Guide to New York City reveals how the city's spirit, fortitude, and character are captured and expressed in its architecture. Thoughtful and humorous descriptions include fascinating bits of local information that bring the city's history to life, telling the stories behind the bricks and mortar. Together, the maps, photographs, and expert critiques invite you on a special grand tour of the city at your own pace.
This guide is a definitive record of New York's architectural heritage and provides a compact, authoritative directory for lovers of New York City all over the world. Its portability and encyclopedic quality make it an ideal traveling companion for any walker in the city. For the sightseer, the architect, or anyone on a casual stroll, the AIA Guide to New York City is the book to grab on your way out the door. [via]More editions of AIA Guide to New York City : New York Chapter, American Institute of Architects:
-
The Alienistby Caleb CarrISBN 0812976142 (0-8129-7614-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alienist'Book summary:The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels. The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler's intellect and Moore's knowledge of New York's vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they're looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over. Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society's belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences. [via]
More editions of The Alienist:
-
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clayby Michael ChabonISBN 0312282990 (0-312-28299-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'Book summary:Like the comic books that animate and inspire it, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is both larger than life and of it too. Complete with golems and magic and miraculous escapes and evil nemeses and even hand-to-hand Antarctic battle, it pursues the most important questions of love and war, dreams and art, across pages brimming with longing and hope. Samuel Klayman--self-described little man, city boy, and Jew--first meets Josef Kavalier when his mother shoves him aside in his own bed, telling him to make room for their cousin, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Prague. It's the beginning, however unlikely, of a beautiful friendship. In short order, Sam's talent for pulp plotting meets Joe's faultless, academy-trained line, and a comic-book superhero is born. A sort of lantern-jawed equalizer clad in dark blue long underwear, the Escapist "roams the globe, performing amazing feats and coming to the aid of those who languish in tyranny's chains!" Before they know it, Kavalier and Clay (as Sam Klayman has come to be known) find themselves at the epicenter of comics' golden age.
But Joe Kavalier is driven by motives far more complex than your average hack. In fact, his first act as a comic-book artist is to deal Hitler a very literal blow. (The cover of the first issue shows the Escapist delivering "an immortal haymaker" onto the Führer's realistically bloody jaw.) In subsequent years, the Escapist and his superhero allies take on the evil Iron Chain and their leader Attila Haxoff--their battles drawn with an intensity that grows more disturbing as Joe's efforts to rescue his family fail. He's fighting their war with brush and ink, Joe thinks, and the idea sustains him long enough to meet the beautiful Rosa Saks, a surrealist artist and surprisingly retrograde muse. But when even that fiction fails him, Joe performs an escape of his own, leaving Rosa and Sammy to pick up the pieces in some increasingly wrong-headed ways.
More amazing adventures follow--but reader, why spoil the fun? Suffice to say, Michael Chabon writes novels like the Escapist busts locks. Previous books such as The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys have prose of equal shimmer and wit, and yet here he seems to have finally found a canvas big enough for his gifts. The whole enterprise seems animated by love: for his alternately deluded, damaged, and painfully sincere characters; for the quirks and curious innocence of tough-talking wartime New York; and, above all, for comics themselves, "the inspirations and lucubrations of five hundred aging boys dreaming as hard as they could." Far from negating such pleasures, the Holocaust's presence in the novel only makes them more pressing. Art, if not capable of actually fighting evil, can at least offer a gesture of defiance and hope--a way out, in other words, of a world gone completely mad. Comic-book critics, Joe notices, dwell on "the pernicious effect, on young minds, of satisfying the desire to escape. As if there could be any more noble or necessary service in life." Indeed. --Mary Park [via]
More editions of Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay:
American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Centerby William LangewiescheISBN 0865476756 (0-86547-675-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center'Book summary:The unsung-and revealing-story of the Herculean effort to finish the dismantling that terrorism began[via]
Unlike any other reporter, William Langewiesche has had unrestricted access to Ground Zero and the people involved in the cleanup. He has literally followed in the footsteps of engineers, "deconstruction" workers, firemen, and city officials as they tackle the mind-numbing task of bringing order to an instance of chaos unprecedented on our soil.
American Ground is a tour of the interlocking circles of this Dantesque world. With the "knowledge and passion as well as ...careful eloquence" for which his reportage is known (New York Times Book Review), Langewiesche anatomizes the physical details of the collapse and deconstruction, capturing in the process the contest of politics and personality that were its aftershock. At the center of the book is the team of engineers, many of them instrumental in building the towers, who now must collaborate in the sad task of disassembling them. Their responses are as dramatic and unpredictable as the shifting pile of rubble and the surrounding "slurry wall" that constantly threatens to collapse, potentially flooding a large part of underground Manhattan. They are also emotional and territorial, as firemen, police, widows, and officials attempt to claim the tragedy-and the difficult work of extracting the rubble and the thousands of dead buried there-as their own.
In all of these aspects-its vociferousness, spontaneity, ingenuity, and fundamental democracy-Langewiesche reveals the story of the deconstruction to be uniquely American, and harshly inspiring. He has constructed an account that will endure against the events of September 11, 2001 as John Hersey's Hiroshima stands in relation to August 1945.More editions of American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center:
-
American Psychoby Bret Easton EllisISBN 0679735771 (0-679-73577-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'American Psycho'Book summary:Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.
Blurb in Spanish: Mucho se ha hablado de American Psycho. Y lo cierto es que había razón para tanta polémica, pues esta novela de Bret Easton Ellis constituye una de las críticas más feroces que un escritor norteamericano ha hecho a su propio país: una sociedad autocomplaciente y orgullosa de si misma. Para su denuncia, el autor ha escogido un camino arriesgado: Patrick Bateman, el protagonista, no es un rebelde ni un paria; Patrick es un joven de éxito que, sin embargo, también es capaz de violar, torturar y asesinar. Como dijo Fay Weldom, American Psycho es de alguna forma el oscuro complemento de La hoguera de las vanidades, por cuanto descubre aquellos puntos negros de la vida de los supuestos triunfadores que la novela de Tom Wolfe quiso obviar. [via]
-
American Roulette: How I Turned The Odds Upside Down, My Wild Twenty-Five-Year Ride Ripping Off The World's Casinosby Richard MarcusISBN 0312336012 (0-312-33601-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'American Roulette: How I Turned The Odds Upside Down, My Wild Twenty-Five-Year Ride Ripping Off The World's Casinos'Book summary:In American Roulette, Richard Marcus tells his never-before-heard story, of ripping off casinos. The book follows Marcus, along with several of the world's great professional casino cheaters, as he travels from Las Vegas to London and Monte Carlo, pilfering large sums of money from casinos by performing sleight of hand magic tricks with gaming chips. As skilled cheaters, they back up their moves with psychological setups to convince pit bosses that they're watching legitimate high rollers getting lucky, while in fact they're being ripped off blind.[via]
With the exploding growth of casino gambling, heightened by Indian reservation and riverboat expansion, more and more elaborate casino cheaters are illegally assaulting the green-felt, getting rich off of novice casino personnel. Richard Marcus's insider story is a window into the hidden world of intriguing personalities and tense situations he encounters as a member of expert casino-cheating teams who use their wits to turn the odds upside down and "earn" millions. American Roulette is a fascinating story not only for those who occasionally casino-gamble, but for everyone with a little larceny in their heart.More editions of American Roulette: How I Turned The Odds Upside Down, My Wild Twenty-Five-Year Ride Ripping Off The World's Casinos:
-
The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 0316769177 (0-316-76917-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep. [via]
More editions of The Catcher in the Rye:
- The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0316769487 (0-316-76948-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub - The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0316769533 (0-316-76953-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0808514032 (0-8085-1403-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0553149660 (0-553-14966-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0553250256 (0-553-25025-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0792715160 (0-7927-1516-0)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer - Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0606048871 (0-606-04887-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media - The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0792715179 (0-7927-1517-9)
Hardcover, Curley Large Print - Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0822070383 (0-8220-7038-3)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc - The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0316769177 (0-316-76917-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
- The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0316769487 (0-316-76948-7)
-
The Catcher in the Rye: New Essaysby J. P. SteedISBN 0820457299 (0-8204-5729-9)
Softcover, Peter Lang Pub Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catcher in the Rye: New Essays'Book summary:J. D. Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye celebrated its fiftieth anniversary of publication in 2001. The Catcher in the Rye: New Essays presents a variety of new approaches to this extremely popular and intensely influential novel, ranging [via]
More editions of The Catcher in the Rye: New Essays:
-
The Catcher in the Ryeby Not AvailableISBN 055311722X (0-553-11722-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. [via]
More editions of The Catcher in the Rye:
-
The Devil Wears Pradaby Lauren WeisbergerISBN 1417663294 (1-4176-6329-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil Wears Prada'Book summary:It's a killer title: The Devil Wears Prada. And it's killer material: author Lauren Weisberger did a stint as assistant to Anna Wintour, the all-powerful editor of Vogue magazine. Now she's written a book, and this is its theme: narrator Andrea Sachs goes to work for Miranda Priestly, the all-powerful editor of Runway magazine. Turns out Miranda is quite the bossyboots. That's pretty much the extent of the novel, but it's plenty. Miranda's behavior is so insanely over-the-top that it's a gas to see what she'll do next, and to try to guess which incidents were culled from the real-life antics of the woman who's been called Anna "Nuclear" Wintour. For instance, when Miranda goes to Paris for the collections, Andrea receives a call back at the New York office (where, incidentally, she's not allowed to leave her desk to eat or go to the bathroom, lest her boss should call). Miranda bellows over the line: "I am standing in the pouring rain on the rue de Rivoli and my driver has vanished. Vanished! Find him immediately!"
This kind of thing is delicious fun to read about, though not as well written as its obvious antecedent, The Nanny Diaries. And therein lies the essential problem of the book. Andrea's goal in life is to work for The New Yorker--she's only sticking it out with Miranda for a job recommendation. But author Weisberger is such an inept, ungrammatical writer, you're positively rooting for her fictional alter ego not to get anywhere near The New Yorker. Still, Weisberger has certainly one-upped Me Times Three author Alix Witchel, whose magazine-world novel never gave us the inside dope that was the book's whole raison d' etre. For the most part, The Devil Wears Prada focuses on the outrageous Miranda Priestly, and she's an irresistible spectacle. --Claire Dederer [via]
More editions of The Devil Wears Prada:
- The Devil Wears Prada: ISBN 0307275558 (0-307-27555-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Devil Wears Prada: ISBN 0767914767 (0-7679-1476-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - The Devil Wears Prada: ISBN 0767917243 (0-7679-1724-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - The Devil Wears Prada: ISBN 0767925955 (0-7679-2595-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - The Devil Wears Prada: ISBN 038550926X (0-385-50926-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - The Devil Wears Prada: ISBN 1417663294 (1-4176-6329-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
- The Devil Wears Prada: ISBN 0307275558 (0-307-27555-8)
-
El Guardian Entre El Centeno/ The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 8420666858 (84-206-6685-8)
Hardcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'El Guardian Entre El Centeno/ The Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Por expreso deseo del autor, no esta ermitido que la editorial aporte en su material promocional ningu tipo de texto adicional, informacio biograica, cita o resen relacionados con esta obra. El lector interesado podra no obstante, encontrar abundante informacio al respecto en internet. [via]
More editions of El Guardian Entre El Centeno/ The Catcher in the Rye:
-
The Encyclopedia of New York Cityby New-York Historical Society, Kenneth T. JacksonISBN 0300055366 (0-300-05536-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Encyclopedia of New York City'Book summary:McSorley's Old Ale House? Park Slope? Madame Restell? Pfaff's Cellar? CBGB? Look 'em up... Just about anyplace or anyone notable in New York is contained in this huge book, which is roughly the size of the Manhattan white pages. The Encyclopedia of New York City is a fitting tribute to the city it both documents and celebrates: it's a sprawling and endlessly interesting read. This unique project was supervised by the New York Historical Society, and boasts more than 4300 alphabetical entries (with hundreds of illustrations) spanning 1300 pages--a feast of facts. You're not sure when New York's first subway opened? Don't know the capacity of Ebbett's Field? Can't place "Dead Man's Curve?" Puh-leeeze... just look it up! [via]
More editions of The Encyclopedia of New York City:
-
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Closeby Jonathan Safran FoerISBN 0618329706 (0-618-32970-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close'Book summary:Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination.[via]
Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11.
An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin.More editions of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close:
-
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Closeby Jonathan Safran FoerISBN 0618711651 (0-618-71165-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'Book summary:Jonathan safran foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, everything is illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history.nine-year-old oskar schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of new york. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the world trade center on the morning of september 11. This seemingly impossible task will bring oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts on an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey [via]
More editions of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close:
-
The Fortress of Solitudeby Jonathan LethemISBN 0375724885 (0-375-72488-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fortress of Solitude'Book summary:This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black despite the first whispers of something that will become known as "gentrification."
This is the story of 1970s America, a time when the most simple human decisionswhat music you listen to, whether to speak to the kid in the seat next to you, whether to give up your lunch moneyare laden with potential political, social and racial disaster. This is the story of 1990s America, when no one cared anymore.
This is the story of punk, that easy white rebellion, and crack, that monstrous plague. This is the story of the loneliness of the avant-garde artist and the exuberance of the graffiti artist.
This is the story of what would happen if two teenaged boys obsessed with comic book heroes actually had superpowers: They would screw up their lives.
This is the story of joyous afternoons of stickball and dreaded years of schoolyard extortion. This is the story of belonging to a society that doesn't accept you. This is the story of prison and of college, of Brooklyn and Berkeley, of soul and rap, of murder and redemption.
This is the story Jonathan Lethem was born to tell. This is THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE. [via]More editions of The Fortress of Solitude:
- The Fortress of Solitude: A Novel: ISBN 0385500696 (0-385-50069-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - The Fortress of Solitude: ISBN 0571219330 (0-571-21933-0)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber - The Fortress of Solitude: ISBN 0786259965 (0-7862-5996-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - The Fortress of Solitude: ISBN 0375724885 (0-375-72488-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- The Fortress of Solitude: A Novel: ISBN 0385500696 (0-385-50069-6)
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898by Mike Wallace, Edwin G. BurrowsISBN 0195140494 (0-19-514049-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898'Book summary:Like the city it celebrates, Gotham is massive and endlessly fascinating. This narrative of well over 1,000 pages, written after more than two decades of collaborative research by history professors Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, copiously chronicles New York City from the primeval days of the Lenape Indians to the era when, with Teddy Roosevelt as police commissioner, the great American city became regarded as "Capital of the World." The sheer bulk of the book may be off- putting, but the reader can use a typically New York approach: Those who don't settle in for the entire history can easily "commute" in and out to read individual chapters, which stand alone nicely and cover the major themes of particular eras very well.
While Gotham is fact-laden (with a critical apparatus that includes a bibliography and two indices--one for names, another for subjects), the prose admirably achieves both clarity and style. "What is our take, our angle, our schtick?" ask the authors, setting a distinctly New York tone in their introduction. No matter what it's called, their method of weaving together countless stories works wonderfully. The startlingly detailed research and lively writing bring innumerable characters (from Peter Minuit to Boss Tweed) to life, and even those who think they know the history of New York City will no doubt find surprises on nearly every page. Gotham is a rarity, reigning as both authoritative history and page-turning story. --Robert McNamara [via]
More editions of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898:
-
Historical Atlas of New York Cityby Eric HombergerISBN 0805078428 (0-8050-7842-8)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Historical Atlas Of New York City: A Visual Celebration Of 400 Years Of New York City's History'Book summary:Eric Homberger's The Historical Atlas of New York City shows what can be achieved within a very narrow frame of discussion. With just one city to depict, Homberger explores the rich variety of details in the city's 400-year history with vivid drawings and illustrations as well as beautifully rendered maps. The atlas takes on the geologic history of New York, major eras (Indian, Dutch, and British), and the formative 19th century, as well as the consolidation of Greater New York, neighborhood histories of Coney Island and Greenwich Village, and the Big Apple exploits of 1945 through 1996. But there's room for the small stuff, too, such as the political and cultural role of New York's taverns in the late 1700s. --Stephanie Gold [via]
More editions of Historical Atlas of New York City:
- Historical Atlas of New York City: ISBN 0805026495 (0-8050-2649-5)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry - The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of Nearly 400 Years of New York City's History: ISBN 0805060049 (0-8050-6004-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co - The Historical Atlas Of New York City: A Visual Celebration Of 400 Years Of New York City's History: ISBN 0805078428 (0-8050-7842-8)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
- Historical Atlas of New York City: ISBN 0805026495 (0-8050-2649-5)
How the Other Half Livesby Jacob August RiisISBN 0809000121 (0-8090-0012-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Other Half Lives'-
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New Yorkby Jacob A. RiisISBN 1420925032 (1-4209-2503-2)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York'Book summary:Jacob Riis's famed 1890 photo-text addressed the problems of immigration, technological innovation, industry, and urban life at the dawn of the twentieth century. American studies instructor and freelance photographer David Leviatin edited this edition to be as faithful to the original text as possible; all interior photos are uncropped reprints made from Riis's original negatives, lantern slides, and prints.[via]More editions of How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York:
- How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York: ISBN 0312117000 (0-312-11700-0)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York: ISBN 0486220125 (0-486-22012-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - How the Other Half Lives: Studeis Among the Tenements of New York: ISBN 0312128096 (0-312-12809-6)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan - How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York: ISBN 0760755892 (0-7607-5589-2)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books - How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York: ISBN 1420925032 (1-4209-2503-2)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
- How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York: ISBN 0312117000 (0-312-11700-0)
J.D. Salingerby Harold BloomISBN 0877547165 (0-87754-716-5)
Hardcover, Chelsea House Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'J.D. Salinger'More editions of J.D. Salinger:
-
J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Ryeby Harold BloomISBN 0791056643 (0-7910-5664-3)
Hardcover, Facts on File
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'J. D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas. [via]
More editions of J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye:
-
J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 0671006916 (0-671-00691-6)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. [via]
More editions of J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye:
-
Motherless Brooklynby Jonathan LethemISBN 0375724834 (0-375-72483-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Motherless Brooklyn'Book summary:Pop quiz. Please complete the following sentence: "There are days when I get up in the morning and stagger into the bathroom and begin running water and then I look up and I don't even recognize my own _." If you answered face, then your name is obviously not Jonathan Lethem. Instead of taking the easy out, the genre-busting novelist concludes this by-the-numbers string of words with toothbrush in the mirror.
This brilliant sentence and a lot of other really excellent ones compose Lethem's engaging fifth novel, Motherless Brooklyn. Lionel Essrog, a detective suffering from Tourette's syndrome, spins the narrative as he tracks down the killer of his boss, Frank Minna. Minna enlisted Lionel and his friends when they were teenagers living at Saint Vincent's Home for Boys, ostensibly to perform odd jobs (we're talking very odd) and over the years trained them to become a team of investigators. The Minna men face their most daunting case when they find their mentor in a Dumpster bleeding from stab wounds delivered by an assailant whose identity he refuses to reveal--even while he's dying on the way to the hospital.
Detectives? Brooklyn? Is this the same Lethem who danced the postapocalypso in Amnesia Moon? Incredibly, yes, and rarely has such a departure been pulled off with this much aplomb. As in the "toothbrush" passage above, Lethem sets himself up with the imposing task of making tired conventions new. Brooklyn accents? Fuggetaboutit. Lethem's dialogue is as light on its feet as a prize fighter. Lionel's Tourette's could have been an easy joke, but Lethem probes so convincingly into the disorder that you feel simultaneously rattled, sympathetic, and irritated by the guy. Sure, the story is a mystery, but Motherless Brooklyn could be about flower arranging, for all we care. What counts is Lionel's tic-ridden take on a world full of surprises, propelling this fiction forward at edgy, breakneck speed. --Ryan Boudinot [via]
-
The Nanny Diariesby Emma McLaughlinISBN 1417684178 (1-4176-8417-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Nanny Diaries'Book summary:The Nanny Diaries is an absolutely addictive peek into the utterly weird world of child rearing in the upper reaches of Manhattan's social strata. Cowritten by two former nannies, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, the novel follows the adventures of the aptly named Nan as she negotiates the Byzantine byways of working for Mrs. X, a Park Avenue mommy. Nan's 4-year-old charge, the hilariously named Grayer (his pals include Josephina, Christabelle, Brandford, and Darwin) is a genuinely good sort. He can't help it if his mom has scheduled him for every activity known to the Upper East Side, including ice skating, French lessons, and a Mommy and Me group largely attended by nannies. What makes the book so impossible to put down is the suspense of finding out what the unbelievably inconsiderate Mrs. X will demand of Nan next. One pictures the two authors having the last hearty laugh on their former employers. --Claire Dederer [via]
More editions of The Nanny Diaries:
- The Nanny Diaries: ISBN 1587242753 (1-58724-275-3)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc - The Nanny Diaries: ISBN 0312291639 (0-312-29163-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - Nanny Diaries: ISBN 031237433X (0-312-37433-X)
Softcover, Griffin - Nanny Diaries: ISBN 0312948042 (0-312-94804-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - The Nanny Diaries: ISBN 0312983077 (0-312-98307-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - The Nanny Diaries: ISBN 0312988915 (0-312-98891-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - The Nanny Diaries : A Novel: ISBN 0312278586 (0-312-27858-6)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press - Nanny Diaries: ISBN 1417684178 (1-4176-8417-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
- The Nanny Diaries: ISBN 1587242753 (1-58724-275-3)
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlistby David Levithan, Rachel CohnISBN 0375835318 (0-375-83531-8)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist'Book summary:It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, whos just walked in to his bands show. With a new guy. And then, with one kiss, Nick and Norah are off on an adventure set against the backdrop of New York Cityand smack in the middle of all the joy, anxiety, confusion, and excitement of a first date.
This he said/she said romance told by YA stars Rachel Cohn and David Levithan is a sexy, funny roller coaster of a story about one date over one very long night, with two teenagers, both recovering from broken hearts, who are just trying to figure out who they want to beand where the next great band is playing.
Told in alternating chapters, teeming with music references, humor, angst, and endearing side characters, this is a love story youll wish were your very own. Working together for the first time, Rachel Cohn and David Levithan have combined forces to create a book that is sure to grab readers of all ages and never let them go.
From the Hardcover edition. [via]-
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New Yorkby Robert A. CaroISBN 0394720245 (0-394-72024-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York'Book summary:For the sheer magnitude, depth and authority of its revelations, The Power Broker stands alone---a huge and galvanizing biography revealing not only the virtually unknown saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power, but the hidden story of the shaping (and mis-shaping) of New York through the past half-century.
Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders have known: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of our time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens--the way things really get done in America's City Halls and Statehouses--and brings to light a bonanza of vital new information about such national figures as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller.
But The Power Broker is first and foremost a brilliant multidimensional portrait of a man--an extraordinary man who, denied power within the normal framework of the democratic process, stepped outside that framework to grasp power sufficient to shape a great city and to hold sway over the very texture of millions of lives. We see how Moses began: the handsome, intellectual young heir to the world of Our Crowd, an idealist. How, rebuffed by the entrenched political establishment, he fought for the power to accomplish his ideals. How he first created a miraculous flowering of parks and parkways, playlands and beaches--and then ultimately brought down on the city the smog-choked aridity of our urban landscape, the endless miles of (never sufficient) highway, the hopeless sprawl of Long Island, the massive failures of public housing, and countless other barriers to humane living. How, inevitably, the accumulation of power became an end in itself.
Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He was held in fear--his dossiers could disgorge the dark secret of anyone who opposed him. He was, he claimed, above politics, above deals; and through decade after decade, the newspapers and the public believed. Meanwhile, he was developing his public authorities into a fourth branch of government known as "Triborough"--a government whose records were closed to the public, whose policies and plans were decided not by voters or elected officials but solely by Moses--an immense economic force directing pressure on labor unions, on banks, on all the city's political and economic institutions, and on the press, and on the Church. He doled out millions of dollars' worth of legal fees, insurance commissions, lucrative contracts on the basis of who could best pay him back in the only coin he coveted: power. He dominated the politics and politicians of his time--without ever having been elected to any office. He was, in essence, above our democratic system.
Robert Moses held power in the state for 44 years, through the governorships of Smith, Roosevelt, Lehman, Dewey, Harriman and Rockefeller, and in the city for 34 years, through the mayoralties of La Guardia, O'Dwyer, Impellitteri, Wagner and Lindsay, He personally conceived and carried through public works costing 27 billion dollars--he was undoubtedly America's greatest builder.
This is how he built and dominated New York--before, finally, he was stripped of his reputation (by the press) and his power (by Nelson Rockefeller). But his work, and his will, had been done. [via]More editions of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York:
-
Rats: Observations On The History And Habitat Of The City's Most Unwanted Inhabitantsby Robert SullivanISBN 1582344779 (1-58234-477-9)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Rats: Observations On The History And Habitat Of The City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants'Book summary:Thoreau went to Walden Pond to live simply in the wild and contemplate his own place in the world by observing nature. Robert Sullivan went to a disused, garbage-filled little alley in lower Manhattan to contemplate the city and its lesser-known inhabitants-by observing the rat.[via]
Rats live in the world precisely where humans do; they survive on the effluvia of human society; they eat our garbage. While dispensing gruesomely fascinating rat facts and strangely entertaining rat-stories-everyone has one, it turns out-Sullivan gets to know not just the beast but its friends and foes: the exterminators, the sanitation workers, the agitators and activists who have played their part in the centuries-old war between human city dweller and wild city rat. With a notebook and night-vision gear, he sits nightly in the streamlike flow of garbage and searches for fabled rat-kings, sets out to trap a rat, and eventually travels to the Midwest to learn about rats in Chicago, Milwaukee, and other cities of America. With tales of rat fights in the Gangs of New York era and stories of Harlem rent strike leaders who used rats to win tenants basic rights, Sullivan looks deeper and deeper into the largely unrecorded history of the city and its masses-its herd-of-rats-like mob. Funny, wise, sometimes disgusting but always compulsively readable, Rats earns its unlikely place alongside the great classics of nature writing.
Did you know?
- 26% of all electric cable breaks and 18% of all phone cable disruptions are caused by rats, 25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused, and rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world's food supply each year. The rat has been called the world's most destructive mammal-other than man.
- Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day. A female can produce up to twelve litters of twenty rats a year: one pair of rats has the potential for 15,000 descendants in a year.More editions of Rats: Observations On The History And Habitat Of The City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants:
- Rats: Observations On The History And Habitat Of The City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants: ISBN 1582343853 (1-58234-385-3)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA - Rats: Observations On The History And Habitat Of The City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants: ISBN 1582344779 (1-58234-477-9)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
- Rats: Observations On The History And Habitat Of The City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants: ISBN 1582343853 (1-58234-385-3)
-
Time and Againby Jack FinneyISBN 0684801051 (0-684-80105-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Time and Again'Book summary:An anniversary edition of a timeless classic tells what happens when Simon Morley is selected by a secret government agency to test Einstein's theory of the past co-existing with the present and is transported back to 1880s New York. Reissue. NYT. [via]
More editions of Time and Again:
- Time and Again: ISBN 0684801175 (0-684-80117-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Time and Again: ISBN 0899684033 (0-89968-403-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - Time and Again: ISBN 0446786365 (0-446-78636-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub - Time and Again: ISBN 0671242954 (0-671-24295-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Time and Again: ISBN 0606300120 (0-606-30012-0)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Time and Again: ISBN 0671204971 (0-671-20497-1)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster - Time and Again: ISBN 0684801051 (0-684-80105-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
- Time and Again: ISBN 0684801175 (0-684-80117-5)
A Tree Grows in Brooklynby Betty SmithISBN 0808514628 (0-8085-1462-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'Book summary:Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny-candy connoisseur, and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colorful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother, and an aunt who gives her love too freely--to men, and to a brother who will always be the favored child. Francie learns early the meaning of hunger and the value of a penny. She is her father's child--romantic and hungry for beauty. But she is her mother's child, too--deeply practical and in constant need of truth. Like the Tree of Heaven that grows out of cement or through cellar gratings, resourceful Francie struggles against all odds to survive and thrive. Betty Smith's poignant, honest novel created a big stir when it was first published over 50 years ago. Her frank writing about life's squalor was alarming to some of the more genteel society, but the book's humor and pathos ensured its place in the realm of classics--and in the hearts of readers, young and old. (Ages 10 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
More editions of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn:
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: ISBN 0816133018 (0-8161-3301-8)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: ISBN 0816158134 (0-8161-5813-4)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: ISBN 0895773287 (0-89577-328-7)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: ISBN 0808514628 (0-8085-1462-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: ISBN 0816133018 (0-8161-3301-8)
-
Up in the Old Hotelby Joseph MitchellISBN 0679746315 (0-679-74631-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories'Book summary:Journalist Joseph Mitchell, whose death in in May 1996 at the age of 87 merited a half-page obituary in the New York Times, pioneered a style of journalism while crafting brilliant magazine pieces for the New Yorker from the 1930s to the early 1960s. Up in the Old Hotel, a collection of his best reporting, is a 700-page joy to read.
Mitchell lovingly chronicled the lives of odd New York characters. In the pages of Up In the Old Hotel, the reader passes through places such as McSorley's Old Ale House or the Fulton Fish Market that many observers might have found ordinary. But when experienced through Mitchell's gifted eye, the reader will see that these haunts of old New York possess poetry, beauty, and meaning. [via]
-
Winter's Taleby Mark HelprinISBN 0156031191 (0-15-603119-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Winter's Tale'Book summary:A bestseller that takes readers on a journey to New York of the Belle Epoque, where Peter Lake attempts to rob a Manhattan mansion only to find the daughter of the house at home. Thus begins the love between the middle-aged Irishman and Beverly Penn, a young girl who is dying. This novel...is a gifted writers love affair with the language (Newsday).[via]More editions of Winter's Tale:
Spanish
-
Las asombrosas aventuras de Kavalier Y Clay/ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clayby Michael ChabonISBN 8497932951 (84-9793-295-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Las asombrosas aventuras de Kavalier Y Clay/ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'More editions of Las asombrosas aventuras de Kavalier Y Clay/ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay:
-
El Diablo Viste de Prada / The Devil Wears Pradaby Lauren WeisbergerISBN 8497936760 (84-9793-676-0)
Softcover, Debolsillo
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'El Diablo Viste de Prada / The Devil Wears Prada'More editions of El Diablo Viste de Prada / The Devil Wears Prada:
-
El Guardian Entre el Centenoby J. D. SalingerISBN 8420634093 (84-206-3409-3)
Hardcover, Alianza Editorial, S. A.
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'El Guardian Entre el Centeno'Book summary:Por expreso deseo del autor, no esta ermitido que la editorial aporte en su material promocional ningu tipo de texto adicional, informacio biograica, cita o resen relacionados con esta obra. El lector interesado podra no obstante, encontrar abundante informacio al respecto en internet. [via]
More editions of El Guardian Entre el Centeno:
-
El Guardian Entre El Centeno/ The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 8420616893 (84-206-1689-3)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'El Guardian Entre El Centeno/ The Catcher in the Rye'More editions of El Guardian Entre El Centeno/ The Catcher in the Rye:
-
Huerfanos De Brooklyn/ Motherless Brooklynby Jonathan LethemISBN 849793296X (84-9793-296-X)
Softcover, Debolsillo
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Huerfanos De Brooklyn/ Motherless Brooklyn'More editions of Huerfanos De Brooklyn/ Motherless Brooklyn:
Italian
-
Il Giovane Holdenby J. D. SalingerISBN 8806163698 (88-06-16369-8)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Il Giovane Holden'More editions of Il Giovane Holden:
French
-
American Psycho-Frenchby Bret Easton EllisISBN 2020253801 (2-02-025380-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'American Psycho-French'Book summary:Patrick Bateman est un jeune homme riche, beau et intelligent. Un golden boy de Wall Street à qui tout réussit. Il est par ailleurs parfaitement au fait des techniques de nettoyage et désincrustage de la peau les plus efficaces, il s'applique les meilleures crèmes pour le visage, ne porte que des vêtements de grands couturiers, utilise les derniers gadgets technologiques et passe ses soirées au Tunnel, la boîte branchée du moment. Bien sûr, tous ses amis sont comme lui.
La seule différence, c'est qu'en plus Patrick Bateman viole, torture et tue. Mais il ne ressent jamais rien. Juste une légère contrariété lorsque ses scénarii ne se déroulent pas exactement comme prévu. À sa sortie en 1991, le roman d'Ellis suscita une vive émotion, aussi bien à cause de ses scènes d'horreur décrites quasi cliniquement que de son principal personnage, Bateman, symbole de la réussite économique, enfant prodige travesti en tueur sadique et immoral. Il faut dire qu'Ellis s'attaque de front à tous les excès de superficialité de l'Occident contemporain : sexe, culte du corps, de la richesse et de la jeunesse. Une entreprise de destruction commencée très tôt avec son premier roman Moins que zéro écrit alors qu'il avait 22 ans et que l'on retrouve dans Glamorama. Bret Easton Ellis ou l'art de mettre de l'acide sur les plaies béantes de la société. --Stellio Paris [via]
More editions of American Psycho-French:
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}