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Carregando... Charm City: A Walk Through Baltimorede Madison Smartt Bell
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Walking tour of Baltimore, with dry wit and good anecdotes. Noticed some inaccuracies and omissions. ( ) Bell is a good guide for a walk through the streets of Baltimore. In fact, he and assorted companions walk so much in this book that you'll get tired just reading about it in your armchair. Along the way, he introduces us to a few restaurants, some dive bars, some architecture, and some history. We get to see the real side of Baltimore, with only a brief brush with the aluminum and steel of the Inner Harbor. What we see is a place we'd like to wander around in for a while ourselves. It's a city that seems to have such interesting people in it, starting with Bell and his walking companions and extending to a host of other interesting characters we meet or perhaps just hear about, like John Waters. There is a certain methodicalness about it all that dulls the effect by about page 150, however. Bell, a transplanted Tennessean by way of New York City, knows and loves the city. But it might have been even more interesting to take a walk through Baltimore with Mr. Waters. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
With a writer's keen eye, a longtime resident's familiarity, and his own sly wit, acclaimed novelist Madison Smartt Bell leads us on a walk through his adopted hometown of Baltimore, a city where crab cakes, Edgar Allan Poe, hair extensions, and John Waters movies somehow coexist. From its founding before the Revolutionary War to its place in popular culture--thanks to seminal films like Barry Levinson's Diner, the television show Homicide, and bestselling books by George Pelecanos and Laura Lippman--Baltimore is America, and in Charm City, Bell brings its story to vivid life. First revealing how Baltimore received some of its nicknames--including "Charm City"--Bell sets off from his neighborhood of Cedarcroft and finds his way across the city's crossroads, joined periodically by a host of fellow Baltimoreans. Exploring Baltimore's prominent role in history (it was here that Washington planned the battle of Yorktown and Francis Scott Key witnessed the "bombs bursting in air"), Bell takes us to such notable spots as the Inner Harbor and Federal Hill, as well as many of the undiscovered corners that give Baltimore its distinctive character. All the while, Charm City sheds deserved light onto a sometimes overlooked, occasionally eccentric, but always charming place. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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