New York: Stories (English Edition)

New York: Stories (English Edition)

From the author of The Notorious Dream of Jesús Lázaro....                                                                                                                                           New York City provides the setting for these fourteen vivid stories. 

• Love on the subway. 
• Tango on the West Side. 
• The High Line as you've never seen it. 
• An artist's heart-thrilling affair. 
• The disastrous secret in a Pulitzer Prize photo. 
• A lover's betrayal, revealed in Central Park. 

All, and more, in New York.From "Bouquet": "The book was a thick coffee table volume, hardcover, of photos taken by Bouquet Alonso. Mike had placed it at Aperture, and the book had been taken up--indeed lionized--by the international press. Although now a fashion photographer, Bouquet's earliest pictures were actually taken in war, most famously in Peru with the Sendero Luminoso. Mike knew that the photo supplied the heat and the full heart of her feelings for what she was witnessing, no matter what it was. The very brief passage of light through the lens compelled her professional life, and the results always thrilled him. 'It's a fever,' she had told him."
 
From "Wilfredo's Debussy": "Rodney lowered the macaroon to the tabletop. 'My father Wilfredo played on all kinds of other instruments. Friends' pianos. Pianos in the public schools where he taught. Tinny, elderly pianos. Out of tune, exhausted pianos. His students' pianos when their mothers would allow a black man like him to come into their apartments. But that Bechstein...he called it 'my Debussy.' And finally, of course, he died.' Rodney suffered a passage of silence. 'The loss of that piano broke my father, Monk, almost as much as the revolution did.'"

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