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Summary: Truman Capoteish, in a Way
Review: This short piece reads rather like some ultra-simplistic pieces I've read from Truman Capote's legendary hand. But it is an ultra-simplicity that goes hand in hand--just as is the case with Mr. Capote, of course--with an enormous passion and poetic sensibility. Mr. White got high on New York City, and his ability to transpose this feeling onto me--and certainly others than me--positions him, with this single short masterpiece, and as far as my literary sensibilities go, among the likes of Ray Bradbury, Lewis Carroll, Thorne Smith and--yes, Truman Capote.
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Summary: like a bullet---short,powerful,to the point
Review: White wrote this essay after he had left New York.Returning briefly,he wrote it for a new travel magazine.It is the gift to give a New Yorker.It is chilling in its prediction(it was written in 1948)that the skyline of New York is irresistible to a madman with a mad point,but equally uplifting in its description of determination overcoming loss.
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Summary: Swells With Universal Meaning
Review: White's beautifully undulating prose illumes the movement, ambiance, paradox and gravity of a city that is, ironically and miraculously, both floodgate and a floodplain of the world.
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