Bibliograph

Going into the city, portrait of a critic as a young man, Robert Christgau

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Going into the city, portrait of a critic as a young man, Robert Christgau

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Going into the city

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dictionariesabstracts summaries

Oclc number

904010914

Responsibility statement

Robert Christgau

Sub title

portrait of a critic as a young man

Summary

One of our great essayists and music journalists, the Dean of American Rock Critics, leads a heady tour through his life and times in this atmospheric, visceral memoir--both a love letter to a New York long past and a tribute to the transformative power of artLifelong New Yorker Robert Christgau has been writing about pop culture since he was twelve and getting paid for it since he was twenty-two, covering rock for EsquireA Walker in the CityJust Kids, it is a loving portrait of a lost New York. It's an homage to the city of Christgau's youth from Queens to the Lower East Side--a city that exists mostly in memory today. And it's a love story about the Greenwich Village girl who roamed this realm of possibility with him

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