Donna Florio
Autor de Growing Up Bank Street: A Greenwich Village Memoir (Washington Mews Books, 10)
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GROWING UP BANK STREET documents a lively mix of immigrant, famous, artistic, and working class people in a six block stretch of Greenwich Village over a hundred year time span. From the author's singing debuts at the exhilarating
Amato Opera to the back stages of The Met, she introduces the varied range of restaurants, shops, factories, a decaying dockside, and more which formed her beloved neighborhood, then covers the dangers of everyday existence in a huge and changing city.
I was inspired to read this because of a friend who has lived all of his 80-plus years in NYC. Being a long time country girl, I wanted to understand how people got past the noise, crowds, traffic, crime, rats, garbage, skyscrapers and concrete replacing good old nature.
Donna Florio's informative descriptions of people and places enlighten her Good Old Days of closeness, friendship, high energy, caring, and love at her end of the Bank Street neighborhood.
I'm still curious about the lack of racial diversity since the 1960s and also wonder about the sources of wealth for all those rich donors and patrons,
as well as any defense of Hoover's tactics.… (más)
Amato Opera to the back stages of The Met, she introduces the varied range of restaurants, shops, factories, a decaying dockside, and more which formed her beloved neighborhood, then covers the dangers of everyday existence in a huge and changing city.
I was inspired to read this because of a friend who has lived all of his 80-plus years in NYC. Being a long time country girl, I wanted to understand how people got past the noise, crowds, traffic, crime, rats, garbage, skyscrapers and concrete replacing good old nature.
Donna Florio's informative descriptions of people and places enlighten her Good Old Days of closeness, friendship, high energy, caring, and love at her end of the Bank Street neighborhood.
I'm still curious about the lack of racial diversity since the 1960s and also wonder about the sources of wealth for all those rich donors and patrons,
as well as any defense of Hoover's tactics.… (más)
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 1
- Miembros
- 33
- Popularidad
- #421,955
- Valoración
- 3.3
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 2
At first, I didn’t think I would like this book. It was definitely kind of weird reading a whole ebook because before this I have never read a whole entire e-book before. But that has nothing to do with the content, that’s just me being weird.
It was an okay book. It wasn’t my favorite but I definitely did not hate it. It has nice flow and was enjoyable but not the book for me. Although it was not the best book for me to read I feel like to the write audience or person it would be really good. Because it is written really well and has good characters and everything like that it is a good book and others would definitely enjoy it. I would even recommend this book to people if I knew that they would like it. I just didn’t really form a connection with the book while reading it and it does not really apply to me so yeah. Definitely a book to read if you like what it’s about!… (más)