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Cleaning Up New York The '70s Cult Classic Format: Paperback

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New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See the ...
Narrative Type
book
Type
book
Intended Audience
General/trade
ISBN
9781936941131

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1936941139
ISBN-13
9781936941131
eBay Product ID (ePID)
215950645

Product Key Features

Book Title
Cleaning Up New York : the '70s Cult Classic
Number of Pages
88 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Cleaning, Caretaking & Organizing, Personal Memoirs, General, Literary, American / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, House & Home, Poetry, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Bob Rosenthal
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.2 in
Item Weight
3.3 Oz
Item Length
6.9 in
Item Width
5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-038651
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"[ Cleaning Up New York ] is one of the great neglected books of the 1970s, a classic short essay...it's brilliant and playful...and eminently practical, too."-- The Endless Bookshelf blog   Praise for Straight Around Allen "Bob Rosenthal's unique, remarkable, and candid recollections of two decades working as secretary for Allen...are, quite frankly, essential reading."-- The Allen Ginsberg Project blog, "Bob Rosenthal's  Cleaning Up New York  is a perfect little gem of a book. There is not one wasted or misplaced word in this chronicle, which manages to contain an awful lot of the world in its few pages. It's not only about the city and its range of denizens, but also about the art of living, the satisfaction of humble work, the way poetry arises from daily experience. And if that weren't enough, it also includes really useful advice about cleaning!" --Luc Sante "I first read  Cleaning Up New York  when it was published in the 1970s and I've been recommending it to people ever since. It's one of those great, rare works the style of which--immaculate, with unexpected descriptor glints, and funny, low-key frankness--perfectly embodies its subject, namely the revelation of soft shine in humble corners of New York. It's a miracle and you don't have to be clean to appreciate it." --Richard Hell "I first read  Cleaning Up New York  when it was published in the 1970s and I've been recommending it to people ever since. It's one of those great, rare works the style of which--immaculate, with unexpected descriptor glints, and funny, low-key frankness--perfectly embodies its subject, namely the revelation of soft shine in humble corners of New York. It's a miracle and you don't have to be clean to appreciate it." --Richard Hell "[ Cleaning Up New York ] is one of the great neglected books of the 1970s, a classic short essay...it's brilliant and playful...and eminently practical, too."-- The Endless Bookshelf blog   Praise for Straight Around Allen "Bob Rosenthal's unique, remarkable, and candid recollections of two decades working as secretary for Allen...are, quite frankly, essential reading."-- The Allen Ginsberg Project blog, "A deeply humane, often hilarious and ultimately moving little treatise on intimacy." --Sadie Stein, The New York Times Book Review "I first read Cleaning Up New York when it was published in the 1970s and I've been recommending it to people ever since. It's one of those great, rare works the style of which--immaculate, with unexpected descriptor glints, and funny, low-key frankness--perfectly embodies its subject, namely the revelation of soft shine in humble corners of New York. it's a miracle and you don't have to be clean to appreciate it." --Richard Hell "Bob Rosenthal's Cleaning Up New York is a perfect little gem of a book. There is not one wasted or misplaced word in this chronicle, which manages to contain an awful lot of the world in its few pages. It's not only about the city and its range of denizens, but also about the art of living, the satisfaction of humble work, the way poetry arises from daily experience. and if that weren't enough, it also includes really useful advice about cleaning!" --Lucy Sante "[ Cleaning Up New York ] is one of the great neglected books of the 1970s, a classic short essay...it's brilliant and playful...and eminently practical, too."-- The Endless Bookshelf blog Praise for Straight Around Allen "Bob Rosenthal's unique, remarkable, and candid recollections of two decades working as secretary for Allen...are, quite frankly, essential reading."-- The Allen Ginsberg Project blog
Dewey Decimal
818/.5403 B
Synopsis
The East Village, NYC, 1976. A twenty-six-year-old starving poet needs $60. What else to do but register with a temp agency as a house cleaner? The excitement never wanes as he is catapulted into the everyday yet unimaginable worlds behind closed (apartment) doors. Bob knows one thing- Dirt will always win. Clients are a bit more unpredictable, he discovers, as he comes to terms with eccentric domestic habits and intimate dramas; weird vibes and strange discoveries; appreciation, dependency, dismissal...and seduction. Even if he's asked to clean up a loft the size of the Strand-and he is, and it's above the legendary bookstore-he coffees up with a doughnut, fortifies himself with some (pocketed) weed, and sets out anew, with disarming insight, originality, and humor. With alternate chapters devoted to practical cleaning tips, Cleaning Up New York is a quirky reinvention in the tradition of George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London , Studs Terkel's chronicles of the working class, and Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management -its narrator a spiritual descendant of Candide, Ida Tarbell, and Holden Caulfield. Publication History- 1st US pub in 1976; OP for decades, THE EAST VILLAGE, NYC, 1976 . A 26-year-old starving poet needs $60. What else to do but register with a temp agency as a house cleaner? The excitement never wanes as he is catapulted into the everyday yet unimaginable worlds behind closed (apartment) doors. Bob knows one thing: the dirt will always win. Clients are a bit more unpredictable, he discovers, as he comes to terms with eccentric domestic habits and strange discoveries. When Bob becomes a weekly fixture in his clients' lives, anything can happen, and does, including a memorable encounter with an obliging Hoover that ultimately proves unable to get the job done. Cleaning Up New York has been a cult classic since it was first published in 1976 in an edition of 750.
LC Classification Number
PS3568.O8367Z46 2016

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