{"product_id":"new-york-sketches-e-b-white-9781946022738","title":"New York Sketches","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Jewels of observation . . . A world described in such loving detail overflows with wonders: The rigorous attention in \u003ci\u003eSketches\u003c\/i\u003e is a kind of re-enchantment.\" --Becca Rothfeld, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow in a beautiful hardcover gift edition: E. B. White's wisest and wittiest homages to his beloved, bedeviled, beguiling New York City.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than fifty years at The New Yorker, E. B. White came to define the ideal American prose: clear, casual, democratic, and urbane. While his classic Here Is New York captured a specific moment in the life of Manhattan, New York Sketches, the first collection of his casual pieces about the city, offers a more intimate and playful look at the city's everyday enchantments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere White ranges at whim from the nesting habits of pigeons to the behavior of snails in aquariums, from the ghosts of old romance that haunt a fire escape or flower shop to the bustle of a calculator trade show on Eighth Avenue. These sketches, some less than a page long, many written for a laugh or in response to the news of the day, show us White at his most sprightly and inventive.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNewly presented in a beautiful, pocket-sized hardcover gift edition, \u003ci\u003eNew York Sketches\u003c\/i\u003e is a diversion for every New Yorker--native, adoptive, aspiring, or far from home--and a perfect introduction to what White called \"the inscrutable and lovely town.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McNally Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50457321799873,"sku":"9781946022738","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/5512\/0833\/files\/9781946022738.jpg?v=1785767582","url":"https:\/\/www.porchlightbooks.com\/products\/new-york-sketches-e-b-white-9781946022738","provider":"Porchlight Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}