In the City

the long version

"What kind of person is a city person? This is a question of increasing importance, Colette Brooks suggests, as the city begins to spread, inexorably, into the furthest reaches of the modern mind. One possibility: a city person is someone "who doesn't feel the need to finish a jigsaw puzzle, who relishes jagged edges and orphaned curves, stray bits of data, stories parsed from sentences half overheard on the streets." Someone who is willing, sometimes eager, to immerse herself in mystery.". "In the City is an exploration of the urban experience. Chronicling the often haphazard lives of city dwellers and cities themselves, In the City is a window into the urban psyche." "In the City shows us that the city is a place where past and present are commingled, where questions rarely have answers, where danger, difficulty, and exhiliration are interwoven in ways we can hardly begin to explain."--BOOK JACKET.