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Flatbush Odyssey
Allen J. Abel
其他書名
A Journey Through the Heart of Brooklyn
出版McClelland & Stewart, 2002
主題History / United States / State & Local / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)Social Science / Customs & TraditionsTravel / United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, PA)
ISBN07710070789780771007071
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=c8gRAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Features a new chapter.
At the age of 43, writer Allen Abel decided to move home to Brooklyn, stay with his mother (in the same apartment in which he grew up), and explore and write about the borough of his birth. For several months he wandered along Flatbush Avenue, the thoroughfare that runs like a spine through Brooklyn. The result is a delightful family memoir and exploration of a unique place. He hobnobs with Mohawk high-steel workers, tries to learn voodoo secrets from Haitian immigrants, commiserates with policemen detailed to the subway, and chats with an ex-zookeeper in Prospect Park. He revisits the scenes of his childhood, samples social life in distant Flatlands, and hunts for horseshoe crabs on the shoreline. "Flatbush Odyssey is a revelation, and in it Allen Abel has produced a marvellous piece of storytelling.