{"product_id":"heart-of-the-world","title":"Heart of the World","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eHeart of the World\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eNik Cohn\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780679744375\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1993\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\"The history of Broadway has been written before, but never better. . . . The verbal energy that pours off these pages is enough to transform the hell of...Times Square into a rough-hewn heaven, neon lit and open all night. . . . The only thing wrong with this book is it isn't longer.\" --\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Nik Cohn ushers readers along the street he calls \"The Heart of the World.\" producing a book that is a resplendent pageant of New York's high--and low--life. Among the characters we meet are a golden-tongued cab driver who calls himself a \"collector of farces\"; a pickpocket with the terrifying gift of impersonating his marks; a heartbreakingly beautiful Dominican transvestite named Lush Life; strippers; pseudo-prophets; and a disgraced political veteran of the days when the graft was still honest. Conducted by a writer with the manic energy of a sideshow barker and the full-blooded lyricism of a raucous poet, this is a bebop odyssey along the Great White Way that reaches in implication far beyond the streets of New York to document the ever-evolving mixtures that make up America itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A lovely, bracing book, full to bursting with juicy, tasty, rancid life. While making its bawdy way through crowded spaces . . . it also travels through modern times . . . wondrous.\" --USA TODAY\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Heart of the World | Nik Cohn | Paperback | 9780679744375 | Used: Very Good | Travelogues 1640741","offer_id":48368522559640,"sku":"1640741","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61EMsXLl7EL.jpg?v=1773263598","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/heart-of-the-world","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}