# The Heart of the World

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- Book: [The Heart of the World](https://www.bookquiver.com/nik-cohn/the-heart-of-the-world) ([The Heart of the World.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nik-cohn/the-heart-of-the-world.md))
- Authors: [Nik Cohn](https://www.bookquiver.com/nik-cohn)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7357-170-9
- Published: 2019-03-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Nik Cohn had planned a trip around the world, but when a friend told him that Broadway is 'the world within itself', he started walking up the Great White Way, from Battery Park to Times Square. Escorted by a drum-playing Russian taxi driver, fuelled by duck soup and whiskey and sleeping in crackhouse hotels, Cohn encountered pickpockets, dancers, old magicians, disgraced politicians, epic storytellers, part-time messiahs, and an unforgettable transvestite called Lush Life. Hallucinogenic history, rogues' gallery, personal odyssey, this extraordinary saga is also an extended love letter to a dream of New York now lost.