{"product_id":"ken-schles-night-walk-hardcover","title":"Ken Schles: Night Walk - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKen Schles\u003c\/b\u003e (Photographer)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA provocative narrative of lost youth and a private view of an irretrievable downtown New York as Schles saw and experienced it.\" -\u003ci\u003eMusee Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwenty-five years after his seminal 1988 book, \u003ci\u003eInvisible City\u003c\/i\u003e, Ken Schles revisits his archive and fashions a narrative of lost youth--a delirious, peripatetic walk in the evening air of an irretrievable downtown New York as he saw and experienced it. \u003ci\u003eNight Walk\u003c\/i\u003e is a substantive and intimate chronicle of New York's last pre-internet bohemian outpost, a stream-of-consciousness portrayal that peels back layers of petulance and squalor to expose the frisson and striving of a life lived amongst the rubble. Here Schles embodies the flâneur as Susan Sontag defines it, as a connoisseur of empathy ... cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. We see in \u003ci\u003eNight Walk\u003c\/i\u003e a new and revelatory \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e for the twenty-first century--a searching tale of wonder and desire, life and love in the dying hulk of a ruined American city.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 162\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 24, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769736298784,"sku":"9783869306926","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/946bcad188d3f58c0f4344ade4ebc0a4.jpg?v=1780355034","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/ken-schles-night-walk-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}