| Living on the Edge of the World: New Jersey Writers Take on the Garden State Contributor(s): Reyn, Irina (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0743291603 ISBN-13: 9780743291606 Publisher: Touchstone Books OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2007 Annotation: Offering a literary dimension to the New Jersey Renaissance, this anthology of pieces by some of the states best and brightest take readers to just about every corner of the state, paying tribute to its unique place in the cultural consciousness. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | United States - General - Travel | Essays & Travelogues |
| Dewey: 917.49 |
| LCCN: 2007003412 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.55" W x 8.21" (0.51 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - New Jersey - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mobsters. Big hair. The smelly Turnpike. The poor cousin of its glittering neighbor Manhattan. Could that really be all there is to New Jersey? In Living on the Edge of the World, the best and brightest young writers from the much maligned state answer back with edgy, irreverent pieces of nonfiction paying tribute to New Jersey's unique place in the cultural consciousness. Like a drive along the Garden State Parkway, their stories travel to just about every corner of the state, from Princeton and Hillside to Camden and Hoboken. In Straight Outta Garwood, Tom Perrotta writes of the near inescapability of returning to his home state again and again in his novels; in Exit 15W, Joshua Braff tells how all roads led back to the Jersey Girl he'd fallen for as a seventh-grader; Kathleen DeMarco takes a nostalgic look at her grandfather's cranberry bog in The Family Farm; Jonathan Ames recounts a failed attempt to consummate his flirtation with a boardwalk beauty in Rose of the Jersey Shore; and Frederick Reiken offers an elegy to a high-rise in Fort Lee that opens his eyes to a new, dangerous world. A celebration of all that's weird and wonderful about the Garden State -- including Bruce Springsteen, the Nets, the Jersey Devil, the films of Kevin Smith, and Great Adventure -- Living on the Edge of the World will have New Jerseyans everywhere ready to stand and be counted. |
Contributor Bio(s): Reyn, Irina: - Irina Reyn is a fiction and nonfiction writer who divides her time between Pittsburgh and Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in anthologies and publications such as The Forward, San Francisco Chronicle, The Moscow Times, Nextbook and Post Road. Born in Moscow, Irina was raised in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. |