{"product_id":"9781584350378","title":"Tale of 2Cities: An American Joyride on Multiple Tracks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Brooklyn to Chavez Ravine, 50 years of New York and Los Angeles history collide in a mix of voices from three generations in this \"living novel\" by Heather Woodbury. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this second \"living novel\" by Heather Woodbury, 50 years of New York and Los Angeles history collide in a live mix spun by Manny, a young DJ, in his dead grandmother's Echo Park apartment. Flashing back to 1957, when Brooklyn lost its home-team and LA's Chavez Ravine was razed to build the Dodgers a new stadium, Woodbury enacts a séance among three generations of interwoven characters on both coasts whose lives were changed forever by this single act of urban redevelopment. Writing about a performance of 2Cities in Time Out, David Cote says: \"Think of the expansive social criticism of John Dos Passos's USA tempered by the loopy humanity of Lily Tomlin.\" Using her trademark meta-mix of voices, Woodbury links psychic devastation of Brooklyn fans after the desertion of the Dodgers with the fate of Chavez Ravine, where Mexican Americans in a thriving community were forced to sell their homes to make room for the new stadium. Toggling between 1957 and the present, 2Cities swoops through cities and the minds of a miniseries-worth of major and minor characters. From the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy to the fall of the Twin Towers, 2Cities channels a lost universe of lives otherwise erased, in a style that owes as much to DJ Shadow as it does to John Steinbeck.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Semiotexte\/Smart Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055175680240,"sku":"9781584350378","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781584350378_p0.jpg?v=1763800995","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781584350378","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}