Ken Schles: Night Walk

By T.S. Eliot and Ken Schles

"A provocative narrative of lost youth and a private view of an irretrievable downtown New York as Schles saw and experienced it." -Musee Magazine

Twenty-five years after his seminal 1988 book, Invisible City, Ken Schles revisits his archive and fashions a narrative of lost youth--a delirious, peripatetic walk in the evening air of an irretrievable downtown New York as he saw and experienced it. Night Walk is a substantive and intimate chronicle of New York's last pre-internet bohemian outpost, a stream-of-consciousness portrayal that peels back layers of petulance and squalor to expose the frisson and striving of a life lived amongst the rubble. Here Schles embodies the fl neur as Susan Sontag defines it, as a "connoisseur of empathy ... cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes." We see in Night Walk a new and revelatory Ulysses for the twenty-first century--a searching tale of wonder and desire, life and love in the dying hulk of a ruined American city.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3869306920
• ISBN13: 9783869306926
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Steidl
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 8.9"