Sunny's Nights: Lost and Found at a Bar on the Edge of the World
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.25 (672 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1400067278 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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The son of a Foreign Service officer, he was raised abroad in Laos, the Ivory Coast, and Germany. Tim Sultan’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Spectator, and GQ. . He is a graduate of Kenyon College and lives in New York City, where he works as an urban gardener
A singular bar and its singular owner I love bars with camaraderie and character. They never were common in my experience and their number has been steadily dwindling towards extinction. I would have loved Sunny's in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, at least as it once existed. When the author Tim Sultan stumbled on it around 1996, Sunny's was in a . Delightful Beautifully written memoir -- funny, poignant, original. Sulton shares the story of an engaging individual with beautiful finesse. A New York story that will inspire you and may remind you that you once loved New York, too, and the reasons that you did.. I recommend this book unconditionally Night Owl This has to be one of the most enjoyable books that I have ever had the opportunity to read. Once I started, I could not put it down. I recommend this book unconditionally.
Wistful, funny and biting, Sunny’s Nights rewards you with its evocation of a certain place in time and, as Sultan calls him, ‘the most original man I have ever met.’”—Newsday “An affectionate portrait of the idiosyncratic Sunny’s Bar in the Red Hook waterfront neighborhood of Brooklyn.”—USA Today “Sultan finds Sunny a real character, a poet, a cinephile, a philosopher, bluegrass maestro and (Rheingold) beer server.”—New York Post (“Required Reading&rdquo
Simply beautiful.”—The New York Times Book Review “Sultan’s love of Red Hook shines through, and it’s hard not to be swept along on the ebb and flow of his emotions. Born next to the saloon that has been in his family for one hundred years, Sunny has over the years partied with Andy Warhol, spent time in India at the feet of a guru, and painted abstract expressionist originals. R. Soon enough, Sultan has quit his office job to bartend full-time for Sunny Balzano, the bar’s owner. But his masterpiece is the bar itself, a place where a sublime mix of artists, mobsters, honky-tonk musicians, neighborhood drunks, nuns, longshoremen, and assorted eccentrics rub elbows. Set against the backdrop of a rapidly transforming city, Sunny’s Nights is a loving and singular portrait of the dream experience we’re all searching for every time we walk into a bar, and an enchanting memoir of an unlikely and abiding friendship.Praise for Sunny’s Nights “Fantastic Sultan takes material that might se