{"product_id":"new-york-sketches-9781946022738","title":"New York Sketches","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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 p","brand":"McNally Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470354288983,"sku":"9781946022738","price":14.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781946022738.jpg?v=1744898102","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/new-york-sketches-9781946022738","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}