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Keys to the City by Joel Kostman (1999, Paperback) 
Keys to the City by Joel Kostman (1999, Paperback)

 
Keys to the City by Joel Kostman (1999, Paperback)

Author: Joel Kostman
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Publication Date: 1999-03-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0140279474
ISBN-13: 9780140279474
Product ID: EPID976145
Description: A New York City locksmith tells tales about his trade.
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Synopsis
A New York City locksmith tells tales about his trade.

Details
Publication Date:1999-03-01

Size
Length:144 pages
Height:8.0 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:4.0 oz

Publisher's Note
Called "Doctor of the Deadbolt" by The New York Times, musician-turned-locksmith Joel Kostman has been collecting stories about the New York characters he's encountered in twenty years on the job: the poor and the wealthy, the friendly and the lonely, and, of course, the eccentric. As Kostman quietly lets them into their apartments, cars, or safes, they let down their guard and let him into their lives. Here we meet a ninety-two-year-old cousin of Eddie Cantor who urges Kostman to try on one of the singer's jackets; a doctor who was Bugsy Siegel's personal physician; a very sexy Jersey girl; and five naked old men listening to Mozart in a steaming apartment, while a 35-degree-below-zero wind blows outside. In vignettes reminiscent of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Keys to the City is an unforgettable collection of fourteen encounters with New Yorkers locked out, locked in-and a few not far from being locked up.

Industry Reviews
"This slender volume is a compilation of the odd scenes Kostman has run into over the years and the peculiar dialogues in which he was a bemused participant. The slices of life are as abundant and fragrant as a Broadway deli's pastrami on rye....Written in the present tense..., the vignettes, while not earthshaking, provide salty, easy, lively city kibitzing."
Clemons

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