{"product_id":"the-heart-of-the-world-paperback-5","title":"The Heart of the World - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNik Cohn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 \u003c\/p\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 380\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.84 x 8.66 x 6.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 19, 1994\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53429567488307,"sku":"9780679744375","price":33.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/eT5vpVxCbw9780679744375_742d4093-572f-41ea-9981-df2f8a147ec1.webp?v=1780632679","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-heart-of-the-world-paperback-5","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}