Heart of the City: Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the

Heart of the City: Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the Streets of New York
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The dirt-poor Texas sailor who offers dinner to a runaway in Central Park. The Midwestern college girl who stops a cop in Times Square for restaurant advice. The Brooklyn man on a midnight subway who helps a weary tourist find her way to Chinatown. The Columbia University graduate student who encounters an unexpected object of beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Â A public place in the world's greatest city. A chance meeting of strangers. A marriage. Heart of the City tells the remarkable true stories of nine ordinary couples--from the 1940s to the present--whose matchmaker was the City of New York.Â Intrigued by the romance of his own parents, who met in Washington Square Park, award-winning author Ariel Sabar set off on a far-ranging search for other couples who married after first meeting in one of New York City's iconic public spaces. Sabar conjures their big-city love stories in novel-like detail, drawing us into the hearts of strangers just as their lives are about to change forever.Â In setting the stage for these surprising, funny and moving tales, Sabar, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, offers a fascinating look at the role of place in how--and whether--people meet and fall in love. Heart of the City is a paean to the physical city as matchmaker, a tribute to the power of chance, and an eloquent reminder of why we must care about the design of urban spaces.

"The couples in this book hail from across America and the world. Most don't live in New York City. Some never did. What mattered to me was that they met there, in one of its iconic public places. Each of the nine stories begins just before that chance meeting--when they are strangers, oblivious to how, in moments, their lives will irrevocably change."â‚¬â€¢from the Introduction
Country USA
Brand Da Capo Press
Manufacturer Da Capo Press
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780738213798
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Da Capo Press
Manufacturer	Da Capo Press
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780738213798
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Heart of the City: Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the Streets of New York

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