{"product_id":"the-heart-of-the-world-isbn-9780679744375","title":"The Heart of the World","description":"\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cb\u003eNik Cohn \u003c\/b\u003ewas brought up in Derry, Northern Ireland. His books include \u003ci\u003eI Am Still the Greatest Says Johnny Angelo\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Ball the Wall\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Heart of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eTriksta\u003c\/i\u003e. He also wrote the story that gave rise to \u003ci\u003eSaturday Night Fever\u003c\/i\u003e and collaborated on \u003ci\u003eRock Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e with the artist Guy Peellaert. He lives in Shelter Island, New York, and Ardara, County Donegal.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299927347429,"sku":"NP9780679744375","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679744375.jpg?v=1767739751","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-heart-of-the-world-isbn-9780679744375","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}