This book is a mixture of history and the author's own personal experience. He sees New York as a city of contradictions. The rich get richer and the poor poorer today, as it has been throughout its history. He describes the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island. The author has also written "Calcutta" and "To the Frontier", which won the Thomas Cook Award for the best travel book of 1984.
- ISBN10 0805009159
- ISBN13 9780805009156
- Publish Date 1 January 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 October 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Henry Holt & Company
- Edition American ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English