[PDF] A Coney Island Reader eBook

Author : Louis J. Parascandola
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0231538197

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This literary anthology celebrates the history and romance of Coney Island with works by some of the 19th and 20th centuries’ greatest authors and poets. Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, José Martí, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E. E. Cummings, Djuna Barnes, Colson Whitehead, Robert Olen Butler, and Katie Roiphe—this anthology illuminates the unique history and transporting experience of New York City’s quintessential beach destination. Moody, mystical, and enchanting, Coney Island has thrilled newcomers and soothed native New Yorkers for decades. Its fantasy entertainments, renowned beach foods, world-class boardwalk, and expansive beach offer a kaleidoscopic panorama of people, places, and events that have inspired writers of all types and nationalities. It becomes, as Lawrence Ferlinghetti once wrote, "a Coney Island of the mind."

Author : Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 10,27 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811200417

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Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.

Author : Charles Denson
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 11,41 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580084550

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Denson gives us an insider's look at one of New York's best-known neighborhoods, weaving together memories of his childhood adventures with colorful stories of the area's past and interviews with local personalities, all brought to life by hundreds of photographs, detailed maps, and authentic memorabilia.

Author : Claire Prentice
Publisher : New Harvest
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780544262287

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Describes the story of a group of people from the Philippines who were transported to Coney Island in 1905 to be portrayed as “headhunting, dog-eating savages” in a Luna Park freak show.

Author : John F. Kasson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1429952237

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Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. Exploring it afresh in this way, John Kasson shows Coney Island no longer as the object of nostalgia but as a harbinger of modernity--and the many photographs, lithographs, engravings, and other reproductions with which he amplifies his text support this lively thesis.

Author : Billy O'Callaghan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 12,90 MB
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473558484

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'A poignant, piercing meditation on middle age and the passing of time... will linger with you long after the book is closed' Guardian *SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD 2020* On a bitterly cold winter’s afternoon, Michael and Caitlin escape their unhappy marriages to keep an illicit rendezvous. Once a month, for the past quarter of a century, Coney Island has been their haven; these precious, hidden hours their only nourishment. But now, amid the howling of an angry snowstorm, the shut-down, out-of-season resort feels like the edge of the world. And their lives, suddenly, are on the brink – with news of serious illness on one side, and a move to the Midwest on the other.

Author : Janet Morgan
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 2021-09-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781734702927

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In March of 2020 the Covid 19 quarantine in Brooklyn was extreme. For people without cars and wary of public transportation life was very limited. In August we finally started riding the subway again and going down to a quiet Coney Island was a real treat. All the rides sat silent for a whole year. The collection of fisherman, homeless people and locals felt like an odd post-apocalyptic community. Everyone was very chatty when we were drawing and I heard a lot of stories. And not only people told stories?. During its year of sleep, Coney Island nourished us.

Author : Tara Altebrando
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,49 MB
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1101515058

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Jane has traveled the world with her father and brother, but it's not until her fractured family-still silently suffering from the loss of Jane's mother many years before-inherits a house and a history in Coney Island that she finally begins to find a home. With the help of a new community of friends, a mermaid's secrets, and a tattooed love interest with traffic-stopping good looks, the once plain Jane begins to blossom and gains the courage to explore the secrets of her mother's past. Colorful characters, beautiful writing, and a vibrant, embattled beachfront backdrop make this the perfect summer read for anyone who has ever tried to find true love or a place to call home. Watch a Video

Author : Carren Strock
Publisher : Gray Rabbit Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617207303

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Mallory McGill has no idea how she got to Coney Island Creek. The last thing she remembers is traveling to the hospital to deliver her baby. Now her baby is missing, and she is being accused of committing an unspeakable crime. For Teri Cardello, a tough detective who has no tolerance for anyone involved in crimes against children, McGill is guilty, and there's no doubt in her mind. But her partner Sam Rothman, who once let an innocent man go to his death, refuses to be so easily convinced. "Either that girl is the worst liar in the world, or everyone else is lying and she's telling the truth," he says. Why can't Mallory remember that fateful night? Could she have killed her baby, or is someone trying to frame her? Someone knows the answers to these questions, and will stop at nothing--including murder--to prevent her from learning the truth. Brooklyn-born Carren Strock is the author of "Married Women Who Love Women" (Doubleday, 1998; Routledge, 2008) and "A Writer's Journey: What to Know Before, During, and After Writing a Book" (Gray Rabbit, 2011). Visit her on the web at www.CarrenStrock.com.

Author : Robin Jaffee Frank
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Amusement parks
ISBN : 9780300189902

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Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, and held there January 31-May 31, 2015; at the San Diego Museum of Art, Calif., July 11-October 13, 2015; at the Brooklyn Museum, N.Y., November 20, 2015-March 13, 2016; and at the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Tex., May 11-September 11, 2016.