{"product_id":"new-york-sketches-eb-white","title":"New York Sketches (E.B. White)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eE. B. White's greatest stories, asides, essays, jokes, and tall tales about the city he arguably saw clearest, loved best, and skewered most mercilessly.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver more than fifty years at the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, E. B. White came to define a kind of ideal American prose: clear, casual, democratic, and urbane. He also did more than any writer to define his favorite city. His classic \u003ci\u003eHere Is New York\u003c\/i\u003e captured a moment in the life of Manhattan with precision and love-but his was no fleeting infatuation. In \u003ci\u003eNew York Sketches\u003c\/i\u003e, the first collection of his casual pieces about the city, White ranges at whim from the nesting habits of pigeons to the aisles of a calculator trade-show on Eighth Avenue, from the behavior of snails in aquariums to the ghosts of old romance that haunt a flower shop or a fire escape or an old hotel. These sketches, some less than a page long, many written for a laugh, or in response to the news of the day, show us White at his most playful and inventive.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Sketches\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome diversion for every New Yorker-native, adoptive, or far from home-and a perfect introduction, not only to what White called \"the inscrutable and lovely town,\" but to the everyday enchantments of one of her fondest reporters.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eElwyn Brooks White\u003c\/b\u003e (1899-1985) was born in Mount Vernon, New York, the youngest of six children. He is best known today for his classic children's books \u003ci\u003eCharlotte's Web\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStuart Little\u003c\/i\u003e; he was also among the best and funniest American prose stylists of the twentieth century.\n\u003cb\u003eMartha White\u003c\/b\u003e, granddaughter of E. B. White, is a writer and editor. Her essays have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other publications.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Trade Paperback, Englisch, 152 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65790308745565,"sku":"K097256015","price":15.1,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9725601500001A.jpg?v=1788369518","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/new-york-sketches-eb-white","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}