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  Brendan Behan's New York with drawings by Paul Hogarth 1964 First Edition First Printing
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Make/Author/Artist: Brendan Behan
Edition/ Material: First edition / printing
Details: Hard Cover

Quantity in Stock:1

Product Code: BRNNY

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Take a look at New York in the 1950s through the eyes of Brendan Behan.

You're FBI, Brendan. said the proprietor of McSorley's, the famous old ale house in New York. So the Foreign born Irishman Brendan Behan, takes us on his last tour of what he calls the most exciting city in the world.

His anthropological investigations cover a wide variety of places, people and things, always accompanied by ribald anecdote and rumbustious description. Whether he is buying a paper off an old lady in Harlem, swimming in the baths at the Young Men's Hebrew Association, or visiting a bum on the Bowery, or having a jar with one of his own in an Irish saloon on Third Avenue, he has always an eye for the color of the situation and the wit to express it. Neither the serious nor the absurd are secure from his investigations and the sacred cows fall happily.

The spirit of the text is brilliantly complemented by Paul Hogarth, whose drawings evoke a nostalgia for the known and not so well known features of the melting pot of the world.

CONDITION: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket, 159 pages, light wear/ aging to DJ - we've added a mylar cover to protect the DJ, book in near fine condition. 1964. stated first printing. First Edition

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