{"product_id":"new-york-sketches-e-b-white-9781968671396","title":"New York Sketches","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow in a beautiful hardcover gift edition: E. B. White's wisest and wittiest homages to his beloved, bedeviled, beguiling New York City.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than fifty years at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, E. B. White came to define the ideal American prose: clear, casual, democratic, and urbane. While his classic \u003ci\u003eHere Is New York\u003c\/i\u003e captured a specific moment in the life of Manhattan, \u003ci\u003eNew York Sketches\u003c\/i\u003e, the first collection of his casual pieces about the city, offers a more intimate and playful look at the city's everyday enchantments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere White ranges at whim from the nesting habits of pigeons to the behavior of snails in aquariums, from the ghosts of old romance that haunt a fire escape or flower shop to the bustle of a calculator trade show on Eighth Avenue. These sketches, some less than a page long, many written for a laugh or in response to the news of the day, show us White at his most sprightly and inventive.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNewly presented in a beautiful, pocket-sized hardcover gift edition, \u003ci\u003eNew York Sketches\u003c\/i\u003e is a diversion for every New Yorker--native, adoptive, aspiring, or far from home--and a perfect introduction to what White called \"the inscrutable and lovely town.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e E. B. White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1968671390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781968671396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McNally Jackson Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"E. B. White","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48450449146111,"sku":"9781968671396","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4b43e682-20be-478a-acf4-43f039a25773.jpg?v=1777267826","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/new-york-sketches-e-b-white-9781968671396","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}