Here is New York Hardcover by E. B. White; Introduction by Roger Angell

Product Details

• Publisher: Little Bookroom (2000-01-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 64 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781892145024
• Item Weight: 158.76 grams
• Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.23 x 0.42 cm

Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker calls it "the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.

About the Author

“Thoroughly American and utterly beautiful” is how William Shawn, his editor at the New Yorker, described E. B. White’s prose. At the magazine, White developed a pure and plain-spoken literary style; his writing was characterized by wit, sophistication, optimism, and moral steadfastness. In 1978 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the body of his work. E. B. White died in 1985

Roger Angell is a writer and fiction editor at the New Yorker.