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Chast, Roz
Subjects
American wit and humor, Pictorial.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Description and travel -- Comic books, strips, etc.
New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel -- Comic books, strips, etc.
New York (N.Y.) -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Chast, Roz
American wit and humor, Pictorial.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Description and travel -- Comic books, strips, etc.
New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel -- Comic books, strips, etc.
New York (N.Y.) -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Going
into
town
: a
love
letter
to
New
York
/ Roz Chast.
by
Chast, Roz
Bloomsbury, 2017.
Call #:
741.5 C489g
Subjects
American wit and humor, Pictorial.
Manhattan (
New
York
, N.Y.) -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Manhattan (
New
York
, N.Y.) -- Description and travel -- Comic books, strips, etc.
New
York
(N.Y.) -- Description and travel -- Comic books, strips, etc.
New
York
(N.Y.) -- Comic books, strips, etc.
ISBN:
9781620403211 (hc.)
Description:
169 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
Let's start here -- Basic layout of Manhattan -- Walking around -- The subway -- Stuff to do -- Flora and fauna -- Food -- Apartment -- Final stop.
Summary:
"For native Brooklynite Roz Chast, adjusting to life in the suburbs (where people own trees!?) was surreal. But she recognized that for her kids, the reverse was true. On trips
into
town
, they would marvel at the strange world of Manhattan: its gum-wad-dotted sidewalks, honey-combed streets, and 'those West Side Story-things' (fire escapes). Their wonder inspired '
Going
into
Town
,' part playful guide, part
New
York
stories, and part
love
letter
to the city, told through Chast's laugh-out-loud, touching, and true cartoons. Roz Chast grew up in Brooklyn. Her cartoons began appearing in the
New
Yorker in 1978, where she has since published more than one thousand. She wrote and illustrated Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, What I Hate: From A to Z, and her cartoon collections The Party, After You Left and Theories of Everything.
Genre:
Comic books, strips, etc.
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Adult Nonfiction
741.5 C489g
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Adult Graphic Nonfiction
741.5 C489g
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