Research Catalog

Title

Central Park : an anthology / edited by Andrew Blauner.

Publication

New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Blauner, Andrew

Description

viii, 224 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

An anthology of top-selected fiction and non-fiction entries by forefront literary contributors includes Bill Buford's memories of a wild night, Jonathan Safran Foer's vision of a transplanted mythical Sixth Borough, and Marie Winn's answer to Holden Caulfiend's question about where ducks go when the pond freezes.

Subject

• Centro para la Promoción de la Conservación del Suelo y del Agua Buenos Aires
• Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
• Central Park (New York, N.Y.)
• Central Park (New York, N.Y.) > Anecdotes

Genre/Form

• Anecdotes
• Anecdotes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Adrian Benepe -- The meadow / John Burnham Schwartz -- Goodnight moon / Ben Dolnick -- Through the Children's Gate / Adam Gopnik -- Framed in silver / Mark Helprin -- Carp in the park / David Michaelis -- Colossus of New York / Colson Whitehead -- Some music in the park / Francine Prose -- The sixth borough / Jonathan Safran Foer -- Squawkeye and gang on the Dendur Plateau / Nathaniel Rich -- Moon palace / Paul Auster -- Sunday in the park with mother / Susan Sheehan -- Negative space / Thomas Beller -- The hidden life / Alec Wilkinson -- Central Park : my little piece of country / Susan Cheever -- The falconer of Central Park / Donald Knowler -- About those ducks, Holden / Marie Winn -- Lions and tigers and bears / Bill Buford -- Beastie / Brooks Hansen -- The goodbye / Buzz Bissinger -- Epilogue / Doug Blonsky.

ISBN

• 9781608196005 (pbk.)
• 1608196003 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011042204

OCLC

758646839

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library