This volume is a quirky look at 100 of New York's offbeat shop windows. At a time when much of New York is succumbing to the uniformity of the mall and the ubiquity of the chainstore, it is a precious record of the shops that are bucking the trend.
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About the Author:
Harry Mathews was born and raised on New York's Upper East Side but left America for France in 1952 shortly after graduating from Harvard. He has written over a dozen books including the novels Cigarettes, The Journalist, and Tlooth, along with collected stories, The Human Country, and essays, The Case of the Persevering Maltese. Mathews is also the only American member of the Oulipo―the Workshop for Potential Literature―France's longest, and most active, literary movement. He divides his time between Paris, Key West, and New York.
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- PublisherThames & Hudson
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0500513392
- ISBN 13 9780500513392
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages223