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Cargando... First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Centurypor David Lida
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Interesting and a good way to whet my appetite for a return visit. I fear some of the suggestions are already out of date, however. ( ) Lida tries to be Joseph Mitchell, detailing life in DF. Some low life, some mid-level. Mixed in with journalistic details on crime, cabbing, machismo, sex, food and politics. Nice read for visitors, especially long-term ones. Getting dated--some things are different. Well a few. Lido has a website that punches out similar vignettes http://davidlida.com/ One of the better books I've read on Mexico City. I'm not sure if it is because the author's time period of coverage overlaps with my own visits to the city, or if it is that the writing is both journalistic and personal at the same time. The book can be read as a collection of essays, and short chapters are interspersed among the major ones that give a more 'slice of life' portrayal. Not a tourist guide, but a good look at how everyday Mexico City denizens live in all socioeconomic classes. I would recommend this along with _The Mexico City Reader_. Wonderful. Insightful. An insiders look at one of the most chaotic, dynamic and vibrant cities in the world. Through a series of short vignettes David Lida provides the reader with an interesting if not poignant and colorful image of Mexico City. He has vividly captured the multi-layered complexity of the city and made a very, very large city approachable and human. A must read for anyone interested in Mexico or interested in trying to understand America's neighbor to the South. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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The definitive book on Mexico City: a vibrant, seductive, and paradoxical metropolis-the second-biggest city in the world, and a vision of our urban future. First Stop in the New World is a street-level panorama of Mexico City, the largest metropolis in the western hemisphere and the cultural capital of the Spanish-speaking world. Journalist David Lida expertly captures the kaleidoscopic nature of life in a city defined by pleasure and danger, ecstatic joy and appalling tragedy-hanging in limbo between the developed and underdeveloped worlds. With this literary-journalist account, he establishes himself as the ultimate chronicler of this bustling megalopolis at a key moment in its-and our-history. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)972.53084History and Geography North America Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Bermuda Mexico; Federal district Mexico CityClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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