{"product_id":"manhattan-45","title":"Manhattan '45","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume was published in England at the same time as the American first edition,( a chapter had in fact been already published a year earlier in 1986 in New York Magazine ). Widely regarded as a truly great travel writer of her time (this is her tenth book) as well as being lauded as a great prose stylist, Morris writes an evocative exploration of New York City at the 'zenith of its existence: the year 1945'. Starting with the return of 14,000 GI's to New York on the British Queen Mary, she takes us on the now vanished trolley buses and the Hudson River ferry-boats meeting many disparate characters from the artist Jackson Pollock to mayor La Guardia and then examples of the lowest socio-economic classes. ''In these pages the victorious, hopeful, confident, celebratory and explosive Manhattan of several decades ago finds its literary apotheosis.'' A thrilling historical travel book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Love Vintage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51781949784360,"sku":"51098","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lovevintagebooks.com.au\/products\/manhattan-45","provider":"Love Vintage Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}