Genre :: New York (3 books)

  • Ragtime

    #341

    Ragtime

    by E. L. Doctorow

    (3 Reviews)

    65 Points

    "In 1902 Father built a house at the crest of the Broadview Avenue hill in New Rochelle."

  • The Bonfire of the Vanities

    #376

    The Bonfire of the Vanities

    by Tom Wolfe

    (3 Reviews)

    55 Points

    "And then say what?" (Prologue)At that very moment, in the very sort of Park Avenue co-op apartment that so obsessed the Mayor ... twelve-foot ceilings ... two wings, one for the white Anglo-Saxon...

  • Manhattan Transfer

    #512

    Manhattan Transfer

    by John Dos Passos

    (2 Reviews)

    23 Points

    "Three gulls wheel above the broken boxes, orangerinds, spoiled cabbage heads that heave between the splintered plank walls, the green waves spume under the round bow as the ferry, skidding on the..."