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New York Days
by Willie Morris
ISBN: 0316583987
ISBN-13: 9780316583985
Format: Paperback
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"A miraculous light-filled world....A star-crossed romance on the boulevard of broken dreams....A wondrous album indeed." -- Elizabeth Hardwick
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published date: 1994
Size: 5.5 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.9 pounds
Pages: 408
Publisher's Notes
In New York Days, the long-awaited sequel to the prize-winning North Toward Home, Willie Morris recalls his triumphant, exciting, and ultimately devastating years as the youngest ever editor-in-chief of Harper's, America's oldest magazine, when he was at the center of the nation's stunning cosmos of writing, publishing, politics, and the arts. It was the 1960s, when New York City was a place "throbbing with possibility" and "in which everyone seemed to know everyone else and where everything of importance seemed to happen first". These were Willie Morris's New York days - with William Styron, David Halberstam, Woody Allen, Bobby Kennedy, Truman Capote, Shirley MacLaine, George Plimpton, Leonard Bernstein, and the other leading figures of the time. For he knew them all: the writers, the poets, the intellectuals, the editors, the actresses, the tycoons, the detectives, the athletes, and not a few fakirs and charlatans. He wined with Sinatra at the Players Club and eavesdropped in the trattorias on the Mob; sat next to DiMaggio in the Garden ringside seats and spent evenings at Elaine's. And during the day, Morris worked to transform Harper's from an uninspired literary magazine to its apex as the groundbreaking political and cultural voice of the '60s, until the editorial rift and the mass resignations of 1971 - possibly the most notable dispute in American publishing history. New York Days is a portrait of an era, but it is also a poignant, deeply personal yet universal story of a man's life: a man who attains everything he has ever hoped for only to realize that what he has sacrificed is even greater. For in the process of reaching the pinnacle of his career, Morris also experiencedprofound loss: the dissolution of his marriage and the breakdown of the magazine as he helped create it. Now, from a vantage point of more than twenty years and a thousand miles, Morris asks his younger self: "Where on earth, fast-moving boy, are you going now?" And what, if anything, did it all mean? Beautifully written with bittersweet lyricism and exuberant humor, New York Days captures the spirit of the '60s: the dazzling parties, the fervent intellectualism, and the sense of slowly decaying idealism as the country plunged deeper into a tragic war and intensifying social chaos. And in the midst of this scene is Willie Morris, exalted, exhilarated, and eventually almost consumed by his brilliant, electric, enervating New York days.
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Back Bay Books, 1994-11-02. Paperback. Good. Good: Copy has been read, but remains in good condition. Normal shelf wear on edges and corners. Binding is tight. Very usable. ( more information) Offered by The Book Gypsies/Classic Education (United States)
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Boston: Back Bay, 1994 Thoroughly clean, Very tight text; remainder mark on lower page edges; covers bright with a tiny bit of corner wear.. 1st Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Remainder. ( more information) Offered by Meadowlark Books (United States)
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Little,Brown and Company NY (199. 1st Paperback edition. Tradepaper VG 8vo, 396 pages, remainder mark, front cover creased, slight edgewear ISBN:0-316-58398-7 . Fair. ( more information) Offered by Citybooks, Inc (United States)
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 1994. Clean, tight copy with no writing or markings. Not an Ex-Library Book. Trade Paperback. Stated 1st Paperback Edition: 10987654321. 396 Pages. Includes Index. By the youngest ever editor-in-chief of Harper's, America's oldest magazine.. Soft Cover. Very Good. ( more information) Offered by JP's Books and Beyond (United States)
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Back Bay Books, 1994 USED - Standard. Book has only minor reading wear; binding is square and tight; covers have light edgewear; aside from remainder mark on bottom of book, text is clean and unmarked.. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Remainder. ( more information) Offered by Booksmart (United States)
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Back Bay Books, 1994 Trade Paperback. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by P W Hall Books (United States)
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company; Back Bay Books, 1993 Near-fine. A little dirt on the foreedge, otherwise as new. Remainder mark/tail edge. Author was Editor of Harper's during the sixties. "The heady literary world of New York City in the 1960s...with stories that are enlightening, revelatory, touching, and uproariously funny." - LA Times. Another copy available.. First paperback edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Left Coast Books (United States)
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company; Back Bay Books, 1993 396 pp.; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Author was Editor of Harper's during the sixties. "The heady literary world of New York City in the 1960s ... with stories that are enlightening, revelatory, touching, and uproariously funny." - LA Times.. First paperback edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Left Coast Books (United States)
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Back Bay Books, 1994. first edition/first printing book is tight with no markings, some light soiling to page edges, wraps have some light soiling and edges have curling/creasing . First Edition/First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by GENE "THE BOOK PEDDLER" (United States)
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