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Ken Schles
Ken Schles
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Hardcover. Twenty-five years after his seminal 1988 book, Invisible City, the author revisits his archive and fashions a narrative of lost youth: a delirious, peripatetic walk in the evening air of an irretrievable Downtown New York as he saw and experienced it. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 177 x 19. Weight in Grams: 644.
Twenty-five years after his seminal 1988 book, Invisible City, Ken Schles revisits his archive and fashions a narrative of lost youth: a delirious, peripatetic walk in the evening air of an irretrievable Downtown New York as he saw and experienced it. Night Walk is a substantive and intimate chronicle of New York’s last pre-Internet bohemian outpost, a stream-ofconsciousness portrayal that peels back layers of petulance and squalor to expose the frisson and striving of a life lived amongst the rubble. Here Schles embodies the flâneur as Susan Sontag defines it, as a “connoisseur of empathy … cruising the urban inferno, ... Read more
Twenty-five years after his seminal 1988 book, Invisible City, Ken Schles revisits his archive and fashions a narrative of lost youth: a delirious, peripatetic walk in the evening air of an irretrievable Downtown New York as he saw and experienced it. Night Walk is a substantive and intimate chronicle of New York’s last pre-Internet bohemian outpost, a stream-ofconsciousness portrayal that peels back layers of petulance and squalor to expose the frisson and striving of a life lived amongst the rubble. Here Schles embodies the flâneur as Susan Sontag defines it, as a “connoisseur of empathy … cruising the urban inferno, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Steidl Publishers Germany
Number of pages
162
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
644g
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Gottingen, Germany
ISBN
9783869306926
SKU
V9783869306926
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Ref
99-15
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