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    A Coney Island Reader: Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion
    A Coney Island Reader: Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion
    A Coney Island Reader: Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion
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    A Coney Island Reader: Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion

    By Louis J. Parascandola and John Parascandola

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    This literary anthology celebrates the history and romance of Coney Island with works by some of the 19th and 20th centuries’ greatest authors and poets.
     
    Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, José Martí, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E. E. Cummings, Djuna Barnes, Colson Whitehead, Robert Olen Butler, and Katie Roiphe—this anthology illuminates the unique history and transporting experience of New York City’s quintessential beach destination.

    Moody, mystical, and enchanting, Coney Island has thrilled newcomers and soothed native New Yorkers for decades. Its fantasy entertainments, renowned beach foods, world-class boardwalk, and expansive beach offer a kaleidoscopic panorama of people, places, and events that have inspired writers of all types and nationalities. It becomes, as Lawrence Ferlinghetti once wrote, "a Coney Island of the mind."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateDec 9, 2014
    ISBN9780231538190
    A Coney Island Reader: Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion

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