Maximum City, the Biography of New York
Häftad bok. Picador . 1993.
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Maximum City is the biography of New York City.
It has an exact purpose: to use the past to understand how New York came to be its glorious, * dangerous self. Unique in its approach and marvellously written, it is packed with fresh stories and bizarre information - an authoritative history that is also a three-ring circus of a book.
'Michael Pye ransacks New York's rich and often scabrous history. Along the way, we are regaled with tales of corruption and vice, of civic glory and some civic virtue, of poverty and squalor, of the conspicuous extravagance of the rich...
Highly entertaining'
New Yorker
'A bustling, hip-firing book for a bustling, hip-firing city ... From banks to brothels, Pye has a first-rate understanding of the business of a city where the auditions never stop because to stop selling is to stop living
GQ
'Pye writes with an easy style, and the book is laced with a store of anecdotes garnered from a welter of sources' Irish Times.
