City Parks

Features eighteen writers who reflect on various parks that hold a special significance for them. This title includes essays that create a portrait of parks around the world - from London to Brooklyn, Calcutta to Chicago, Paris to San Francisco - and offers a vision of their significance both to the individual and society itself. City Parks illuminates the spirit and beauty of the world's most loved city parks: an extraordinary visual and poetic journey from London to Brooklyn, Calcutta to Chicago, and Paris to San Francisco, captured in breathtaking photographs and the evocative words of celebrated writers and personalities. Features: Andre Aciman; Jonathan Alter; John Banville; Bill Clinton; Candice Bergen; Norman Foster; Amanda Foreman; Ian Frazier; Andrew Sean Greer ; Amanda Harlech; Pico Iyer; Nicole Krauss; David Lida; Jan Morris; Zadie Smith; Ahdaf Soueif; Colm Toibin; and,Simon Winchester. In City Parks, eighteen writers reflect on various parks that hold a special significance for them, sharing personal moments they associate with them. Andrew Sean Greer eloquently paints a portrait of first love in the Presidio; Andre Aciman muses on the passage of time and the changing face of New York as viewed from the High Line; Nicole Krauss describes the real citizens of Prospect Park-dogs!; Simon Winchester takes readers along on his adventures in the Maidan; and Bill Clinton describes his affection for Dumbarton Oaks. Intensely personal, yet joined by overlapping themes of memory and the unstoppable passage of time, these essays create a warm portrait of parks around the world-from London to Brooklyn, Calcutta to Chicago, Paris to San Francisco-and offer a unique, thoughtful vision of their significance both to the individual and society itself. Beautifully illustrated…