Tenements, Towers & Trash - Julia Wertz

Tenements, Towers & Trash

An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2025
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-316-58233-9 (ISBN)
22,85 inkl. MwSt
Revised and updated edition of the critically acclaimed, New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Tenements, Towers & Trash by Julia Wertz (author of Impossible People). Published in paperback and a reduced trim size.
**A New York Times Notable Book of the Year**

Here is New York, as you've never seen it before! Acclaimed cartoonist Julia Wertz regales us with her triumphant, entertaining, and side-splittingly funny illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, the guts, and the little known charms (and horrors) of the greatest city in the world.

In Tenements, Towers & Trash, Julia Wertz takes us behind, underneath, around, and into the New York that you think you know. Not the tourist's New York (the Statue of Liberty makes a brief appearance and the Empire State Building not at all), but the guts, the underbelly, of this city that never sleeps. With drawings and comics in her signature style, Wertz regales us with streetscapes "Then and Now" and little-known tales, such as the lost history of Kim's Video, the complicated and unresolved business of Ray's Pizza, the vintage trash and horse bones that litter the shore of Brooklyn's Bottle Beach, the ludicrous pinball prohibition, Staten Island's secret abandoned boatyard, and the hair-raising legend of the infamous abortionist of Fifth Avenue, Madame Restell. From bars, bakeries, and bookstores to food carts, street cleaners, and apartments both cramped and grand, Tenements, Towers & Trash is a wild ride in a time machine taxi from the present day city to bygone days of yore.

Julia Wertz is a professional cartoonist, amateur historian, and part-time urban explorer. Her books include Impossible People: A Competley Average Recovery Story,The Fart Party, Museum of Mistakes, Drinking at the Movies, and The Infinite Wait and Other Stories. She does monthly comics and doodles for the New Yorker and the New York Times. After leaving New York City, she settled down in Northern California with Oliver (yes, that Oliver) and their son, Felix.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.5.2025
Zusatzinfo 300+ black-and-white illustrations throughout
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 203 x 254 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Comic / Humor / Manga Cartoon / Graphic Novel
Literatur Comic / Humor / Manga Comic
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-316-58233-6 / 0316582336
ISBN-13 978-0-316-58233-9 / 9780316582339
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