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Living On The Edge Of The World
Irina Reyn
New Jersey Writers Take On The Garden State
Touchstone
June 2007
On Sale: June 5, 2007
256 pages
ISBN: 0743291603
EAN: 9780743291606
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Mobsters. Big hair. The smelly Turnpike.
The poor cousin of its glittering neighbor Manhattan. Could
that really be all there is to New Jersey? In Living on
the Edge of the World, the best and brightest young
writers from the much maligned state answer back with edgy,
irreverent pieces of nonfiction paying tribute to New
Jersey's unique place in the cultural consciousness. Like
a drive along the Garden State Parkway, their stories travel
to just about every corner of the state, from Princeton and
Hillside to Camden and Hoboken. In "Straight Outta Garwood,"
Tom Perrotta writes of the near inescapability of returning
to his home state again and again in his novels; in "Exit
15W," Joshua Braff tells how all roads led back to the
Jersey Girl he'd fallen for as a seventh-grader; Kathleen
DeMarco takes a nostalgic look at her grandfather's
cranberry bog in "The Family Farm"; Jonathan Ames recounts a
failed attempt to consummate his flirtation with a boardwalk
beauty in "Rose of the Jersey Shore"; and Frederick Reiken
offers an elegy to a high-rise in Fort Lee that opens his
eyes to a new, dangerous world. A celebration of all
that's weird and wonderful about the Garden State --
including Bruce Springsteen, the Nets, the Jersey Devil, the
films of Kevin Smith, and Great Adventure -- Living on
the Edge of the World will have New Jerseyans everywhere
ready to stand and be counted.
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