Showing posts with label USA (New York/Brooklyn). Show all posts
Showing posts with label USA (New York/Brooklyn). Show all posts
Wednesday, 8 January 2014
'BROOKLYN' - one of the Greatest Travel Books, what do you think?
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín was awarded the 2009 Costa Novel Award, and of course is set in Brooklyn, New York. Clean, clear writing that spurs the reader into turning page after page!
This post now appears on the new TripFiction website, here
Friday, 6 December 2013
BROOKLYN - "A bold piece"
Someone by Alice McDermott set in Brooklyn
This post can now be found on the new TripFiction site here
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Tranquil Light over BROOKLYN (and NYC and JAPAN)
“I
had always thought, from my outpost on Mount Nagata, that great beauty could be
the product of only of nature. But these American skyscrapers – columns of
shiny black mica, windows the colour of tremolite – were redolent with
something else. They spoke to me of man-made dreams made concrete and grounded
in rock, of lives fully lived. They were the solid manifestations of soaring
spirit and a kind of service to a greater cause. Even the broken Manhattan
skyline, where the towers had once stood, spoke to me of immense human
suffering and even greater endurance. There was something unique about New
York’s mountain ridge of buildings..” Seido-san’s observations of New York,
quoted from Buddahland Brooklyn.
Buddahland Brooklyn by Richard C Morais is now reviewed on the new TripFiction website here
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