Lucy Sante
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For a long time, Lucy Sante felt unsure of her place. Born in Belgium, the only child of conservative working-class Catholic parents who transplanted their little family to the United States, she felt at home only when she moved to New York City in the early 1970s and found her people among a band of fellow bohemians. Some would die young, to drugs and AIDS, and some would become jarringly famous. Sante flirted with both fates, on her way to building...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
xvi, 266 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This harrowing tale of a young girl in the slums is a searing portrayal of turn-of-the-century New York, and Stephen Crane's most innovative work. Published in 1893, when the author was just twenty-one, it broke new ground with its vivid characters, its brutal naturalism, and its empathic rendering of the lives of the poor. It remains both "powerful, severe, and harshly comic" (in Alfred Kazin's words) and a masterpiece of modern American prose."...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 18 x 39 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of panoramic group photographs which present a portrait of a society on the cusp of sweeping change, bringing to life the shared experience of American history from the late nineteenth century to the World War II era.
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
231 pages : portraits, illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Rockabilly was born out of country, bluegrass, jazz, and the blues in the 1950s, becoming rock 'n' roll and ruling the world. Here's the story of Elvis Presley's first Sun records that inspired all.
