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Condition: Like new: A book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket ... Like new: A book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket (if applicable) is included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab

ISBN: 9780226669441

EAN: 9780226669441

Publication Year: 2009

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Book Title: Thousands of Broadways: Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town

Item Height: 226mm

Author: Robert Pinsky

Publisher: T.H.E. University of Chicago Press

Genre: Biographies & True Stories

Item Width: 155mm

Item Weight: 284g

Number of Pages: 106 Pages

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Broadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinsky?s home town of Long Branch, New Jersey, was once like thousands of other main streets in small towns across the country. But for Pinsky, one of America?s most admired poets and its former Poet Laureate, this Broadway is the point of departure for a lively journey through the small towns of the American imagination. Thousands of Broadways explores the dreams and nightmares of such small towns?their welcoming yet suffocating, warm yet prejudicial character during their heyday, from the early nineteenth century through World War II. The citizens of quintessential small towns know one another extensively and even intimately, but fail to recognize the geniuses and criminal minds in their midst. Bringing the works of such figures as Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Alfred Hitchcock, Thornton Wilder, Willa Cather, and Preston Sturges to bear on this paradox, as well as reflections on his own time growing up in a small town, Pinsky explores how such imperfect knowledge shields communities from the anonymity and alienation of modern life. Along the way, he also considers how small towns can be small minded?in some cases viciously judgmental and oppressively provincial. Ultimately, Pinsky examines the uneasy regard that creative talents like him often have toward the small towns that either nurtured or thwarted their artistic impulses. Of living in a small town, Sherwood Anderson once wrote that the sensation is one never to be forgotten. On all sides are ghosts, not of the dead, but of living people. Passionate, lyrical, and intensely moving, Thousands of Broadways is a rich exploration of this crucial theme in American literature by one of its most distinguished figures.

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T.H.E. University of Chicago Press

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9780226669441

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Thousands of Broadways: Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town

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Robert Pinsky

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Hardcover

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English

Publication Year

2009

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Biographies & True Stories

Number of Pages

106 Pages

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226mm

Item Width

155mm

Item Weight

284g

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Robert Pinsky

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The Rice University Campbell Lectures

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United States

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