Fantasmi di New York

I'm convinced the author either knew someone at the New York Times or made a sizable donation to the right people. This is just not great.

One of my main pleasures in reading is discovering a new (to myself at least) book/author whose voice is so unique and whose novel so enthralling you want to grab everyone you know and thrust a copy of the book into their hands and insist they read it ... NOW!! The last time that happened to me was

There’s no city like New York. Which is to say some major metropolises actually deserve some of their glamorous reputation, but NYC has simply had what appears to be the best marketing of all time. It isn’t even the plain girl of city, it’s ugly, used up, dirty whore of a one, but it got shellacked Leggi tutto

I really really wanted to love this book. Dark and moody with NYC at the center. A series of vignettes, loosely connected and all set in NYC. Could’ve been a darker version of Collin McCann’s Let the Great World Spin. But it never quite got there for me. Felt sad and lonely like a cold, rainy night Leggi tutto

The marvelous book and much underrated, it is exactly how random characters and their stories intertwine by living in a big city. Little stores, bars, busy streets etc descriptions are vivid and lyrical, I felt like I was there walking the streets.

I have to be honest with you. Pretty much all the New York-themed books I’ve read involve man-chasing, Manolo Blahnik-obsessed shopaholics. When I think of Manhattan, I envision Broadway shows, enchanting parks lit up with fairy lights and fashionable women strolling arm-in-arm down bustling sidewal Leggi tutto

EXHAUSTINGLY BEAUTIFUL There are novels that are good because of their synchronicity, or because if their musical language, or raw realism. ...and then there is Ghosts of New York. Here is a novel unlike any other. A reader begins and suddenly, after two pages, or twenty pages, realizes that he must r Leggi tutto