Pete hamill is an american journalist, novelist, essayist, editor and educator. What kind of book is downtownan elegy, a rhapsody, a personalized history, or something. He was born in brooklyn and has spent the last fourplus decades exploring the streets of new york as both a newspaperman and resident. He writes a column for the new york daily news and lives in new york city. Pete hamill is a novelist, journalist, editor, and screenwriter. Widely traveled and having written on a broad range of topics, he is perhaps best known for his career as a new york city journalist, as the author of columns that sought to capture the particular flavors of new york city. Dec 01, 2004 manhattan south of 42nd street with a handful of excursions north, rendered in all its delirious human evidence by veteran newsman hamill forever, 2002, etc. What kind of book is downtownan elegy, a rhapsody, a personalized history, or something else.
Pete hamill is a long time newsman in new york city, working at numerous newspapers including those long since defunct. Hanging tough in a city thats always changing the new york. Downtown wanders all over the map in pete hamill s very personal take on manhattan. My manhattan, discusses what makes new york home author pete hamill wikimedia commons by courtney jordan. My manhattan, is hamills brilliant tribute to the city he loves. Jan 16, 2004 to my mind, pete hamill is the quintessential new yorker. In downtown, pete hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the islands southern tip to times square, combining a moving memoir of his days and nights in new york with a passionate history of its most enduring places and people. Pete hamills collected stories about brooklyn present a new york almost lost but not forgotten. My manhattan is a sixhour exploration into the heart of a place that occupies at least four dimensions. In downtown, hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the islands southern tip to 42nd street, combining a moving memoir of his days and nights in new york with a passionate history of its most enduring places and people. Pete hamill in downtown, hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the islands southern tip to fortysecond street, combining a moving memoir of his days and nights in new york. Hes the author of numerous books, including downtown. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone.
My manhattan is part of the latest spate of books that combine personal new york city experience and new york city history, as do colson whiteheads the colossus of new york in a way and phillip lopates waterfront. A thousand pictures painted by the way he describes the creation of new york city, first as new amsterdam and then i tend to shy away from history books simply because i dont typically. My manhattan the legendary new york city writer pete hamill offers his own unique geography of the city. Lifelong resident of nyc, growing up in brooklyn and since living in many neighborhoods in lower and lower mid manhattan. Widely traveled and having written on a broad range of topics, he is perhaps best known for his career as a new york city journalist, as the author of columns that sought to capture the particular flavors of new york citys politics and sports and the particular pathos of. My manhattan by pete hamill in chm, djvu, doc download ebook. His writing is perhaps too dramatic and sentimental for some readers, but hes a popular. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. From his days as a crack reporter who incredibly rose to the editorinchief post of both rival dailies the new york post and the new york daily news to his novels like the sweeping manhattan epic forever, pete hamill keeps his typing fingers on. I was born in the immense and beautiful segment of it called brooklyn, but ive lived and worked for much of my life in its center, the long skinny island called manhattan. A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. As it turned out, my life in manhattan had its own geographical limits, and they are central to this book. His nine novels include snow in august and forever, both of which were new york times bestsellers. From his days as a crack reporter who incredibly rose to the editorinchief post of both rival dailies the new york post and the new york daily news to his novels like the sweeping manhattan epic forever, pete hamill keeps his typing fingers on the pulse of the city he calls home.
To my mind, pete hamill is the quintessential new yorker. My own city, the one that feels like home, is the one ive always called downtown. My manhattan by pete hamill this a a book about my home city. Lifelong resident of nyc, growing up in brooklyn and since living in many neighborhoods in lower and lower midmanhattan. A lifelong resident, former editorinchief of both the new york post and new york daily news, author of eight books, among them the best selling memoir, a drinking life, and the subway series reader, hamill knows more than most about the five boroughs, especially downtown manhattan. Jan 01, 2004 pete hamill brought new york city to life in his writing of this book. New york, hamill writes, is a city of daily irritations, occasional horrors, hourly tests of will and even courage, and huge dollops of pure beauty.
However, hamill s is as different from those two other books as those two books are different from. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Pete hamill books list of books by author pete hamill. Hamill and his wife, fukiko aoki hamill, a japanese journalist and novelist, leased out their tribeca loft, where he lived when he published a paean subtitled my manhattan.
Manhattan south of 42nd street with a handful of excursions north, rendered in all its delirious human evidence by veteran newsman hamill forever, 2002, etc. Pete hamill brought new york city to life in his writing of this book. He is the author of 15 previous books including the bestselling novels snow in august and forever and the bestselling memoir a drinking life. From the batterys traces of the early port to washington squares ghosts of executed. My manhattan, where the subtitle is important, he focuses on the area most nostalgic for him, more or less from 42nd street south, but with some good writing about upper broadway in the days of the thalia movie theater. Hamill and his wife, fukiko aoki hamill, a japanese journalist and novelist, leased out their tribeca loft, where he lived when he published a. In downtown, pete hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves. Rail editor theodore hamm recently sat down with hamill at the latters home below canal street theodore hamm rail. Dec 22, 2004 downtown my manhattan by pete hamill illustrated. From the batterys traces of the early port to washington squares ghosts of executed convicts and wellheeled.
It includes some of his own reporting on the destruction of the world trade center on september 11, 2001, at which he was present. My manhattan pete hamill, author, pete hamill, read by, read by the author. However, hamill s is as different from those two other books as those two books. They read like messages from a vanished age, brimming with nostalgiafor the world after the war, the days of the dodgers and giants, and even, for some, the years of prohibition and the depression. After 30 years, pete hamill returns to brooklyn the new. Rail editor theodore hamm recently sat down with hamill at the latters home below canal street. Pete hamill is a veteran new york journalist and novelist. Downtown by pete hamill overdrive rakuten overdrive. That is why these notes are limited to those parts of manhattan in which i have truly lived. Downtown, hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the islands southern tip to 42nd street, combining a moving memoir of his days and nights in new york with a passionate history of its most enduring places and people. However, hamills is as different from those two other books as those two books are different from. The concrete, brick, steel, trees and grass of a modern city and the presence of a cultural identity that has been evolving since the earliest days of the greek, roman, and song dynasty empires. Hanging tough in a city thats always changing the new.