Research Catalog

Title

In the place to be : Guy Trebay's New York / Guy Trebay ; with photographs by Sylvia Plachy.

Author

Trebay, Guy, 1952-

Publication

Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Plachy, Sylvia.

Description

xiii, 367 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Subject

• New York (N.Y.) > Description and travel
• New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs

Contents

• Talk That Talk -- Worlds in a Small Room -- Down There on a Visit -- The End of the World in Wax -- 'Mach Schnell,' Shortcakes! -- The Job Well Done -- Baucis and Philemon in the Bronx -- Candy Says -- Hoofing It -- My Grandson the Shaman -- Junk 'n' Stuff -- Deaf Jam -- Broadway Hustle -- Insane!!! -- I'm Dreaming of a White Column -- Going Off -- In the Salsa Zone -- Kanesha and Aunt Te -- The World as We Knew It -- Thomas Wilson's Unfinished Business -- Turn On, Turn In -- Bronx Cheer -- The Mourning News -- The Horse Knows the Way -- Have a Fresh Day -- Under One Tent -- Le Look -- Net Gain, Net Loss -- Reasons to Be Cheerful -- The Countdown -- Eyes on the Prize -- What Is Love? -- Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room -- He Want You But He Do Not Need You -- God's Acre -- Bless the Beasts -- Articles of Faith -- The Strange Garden of David Hammons -- The Rose and the Thorn -- Machine Dreams -- Purple Reign -- Mixed Greens -- A Pompeian Flower in New York -- Too Many Tellings -- Tunnel Vision.
• One More Shot -- Hanging in the Flow -- Dog Day Afternoon -- Drug Rules -- The War at Home -- Rules of the Game -- Urban Underdevelopment -- Swing Time -- Land of a Thousand Dances -- Circus Nerves -- The Spirit Is Willing -- Guerrillas Night Out -- Come as You Are -- Come Here Often? -- Auk Auk Auk -- WET -- Wild Style -- Heap of Trouble -- Rites of Spring -- The Hole Story -- Closed for the Season -- "-----" -- The Three Bears -- A Very Young Elephant -- Life at C -- Everything Must Go.

ISBN

• 1566392780
• 156639208X (paper)

LCCN

94022926

OCLC

• 30893353
• ocm30893353

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries