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    <body><![CDATA[Colson Whitehead delivers yet another course in strong writing. <em>The Colossus of New York </em> is a love letter to New York city. Whitehead captures the ebb, flow, and character of JFK, rain in the city, and Times Square. The collection - a series of short pieces linked by gymnasticaly clever language an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41020772">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Colson Whitehead, The Colossus of New York: A City in Thirteen Parts (Doubleday, 2003)<br/><br/>When one encounters the name &quot;Colson Whitehead,&quot; one is apt to think of an old Irish immigrant viewing the city through a jaundiced eye, bleary from another night of stumbling home in rush hour ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13068915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Is it possible a book can make you feel nostalgic for a city you've lived in for four years...and STILL live in? <br/><br/>Every year, New York Magazine does a why we love New York issue. It's my favorite issue, delving into everything from your favorite subway stalker to the ultimate mojito. I fe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17610721">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Someone familiar with New York City would enjoy this small book.  The author captures the quirkyness of the New York way of doing things and talks about familiar sights such as the subway, Central Park,the Brooklyn Bridge and the sights and sounds that accompany them.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the first several &quot;parts&quot;, lost interest and then it ended with a bang.  I think anyone who has spent a lot of time in the City or has moved away will also love to have this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reads like a slow jazz song...an interesting and sometimes unspecific look at NYC.  The longer that you live here, the more that it makes sense.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a wonderful book of little new york city vignettes.  as always, whitehead is hilarious, clever, and incisive with his language.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Colson Whitehead's The Colossus of New York is creative nonfiction, which I may love even more than The Intuitionist.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;&quot;Forming an attachment to an umbrella is the shortest rouite to heartbreak in this town&quot; p. 62]]></body>
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