Heart of the City, Ariel Sabar
Heart of the City, Ariel Sabar
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Heart of the City
Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the Streets of New York

Author: Ariel Sabar

Narrator: Neil Shah

Unabridged: 8 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/11/2011


Synopsis

The handsome Texas sailor who offers dinner to a runaway in Central Park. The Midwestern college girl who stops a cop in Times Square for restaurant advice. The Brooklyn man on a midnight subway who helps a weary tourist find her way to Chinatown. The Columbia University graduate student who encounters an unexpected object of beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A public place in the worlds greatest city. A chance meeting of strangers. A marriage. Heart of the City tells the remarkable true stories of nine ordinary couplesfrom the 1940s to the presentwhose matchmaker was the city of New York. Intrigued by the romance of his own parents, who met in Washington Square Park, awardwinning author Ariel Sabar set off on a farranging search for other couples who married after first meeting in one of New York Citys iconic public spaces. Sabar conjures their bigcity love stories in novellike detail, drawing us into the hearts of strangers just as their lives are about to change forever. In setting the stage for these surprising, funny, and moving tales, Sabar, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, offers a fascinating look at the role of place in howand whetherpeople meet and fall in love.

About Ariel Sabar

Ariel Sabar is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times, Harper's Magazine, the Washington Post, and many other publications. He is the author of My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Family's Past, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kris on November 09, 2017

Quite adorable stories written in an engaging style. Sabar explores the provocative premise that being stimulated by an environment can cause people to fall in love. Or, at least, act more daring toward each other in that environment, which could lead to love. Because of the good writing there is int......more

Goodreads review by Kat on May 23, 2011

The worst part of this book was probably the rendering of Midwestern accents. Anytime someone was from the Midwest they sounded like a cross between characters in Fargo and Sarah Palin. Unfortunately the writing was often a little lackluster. Stories about people meeting in public places in New York......more

Goodreads review by pea. on July 20, 2022

the introduction was soo interesting... the epilouge was a nice wrap up. the heart of the book was dull (maybe because we know the couples end up together - of course we know that with Hallmark movies too, but we will table that, for now) alas, sociologicaly speaking, place does have an impact on the......more

Goodreads review by Bonnie on February 14, 2023

Slightly recommend diving into the stories - skip the prologue/afterward. The stories were nice enough but not a wonderful as I'd hoped. Was a bit like reading the 'How we met' type columns in the newspaper.......more