Where On Earth? ; Where Do You Feel Most Yourself? Es Asked Seven Writers to Take Us to Their Favourite Home From Home

Evening Standard - London (March 17, 2006)

Author: Edward Helmore

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Insular, neurotic and restless, Edward Helmore has found his spiritual home in Manhattan

The cliches about Manhattan are cliches because they're true the breathtaking skyline, its restlessness and impatience, King Kong, a city of straight lines and no curves.

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Where On Earth? ; Where Do You Feel Most Yourself? Es Asked Seven Writers to Take Us to Their Favourite Home From Home

New Yorkers, too, are highly defined: they are separated by neighbourhood and profession, they're separated by origin, and most of all they're separated because Manhattan is an island it's separate from America and the world. The city is the purest...

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