New York City has been home to a Puerto Rican population since the mid-1900s, with the most noticeable migration boom beginning in the 1950s. As Puerto Ricans settled in New York over the years they stamped the city with their culture, indelibly altering neighborhoods like the South Bronx, the Lower East Side, Williamsburg, and downtown Brooklyn with rhythm, style, flavor, art, language, and claro, Latino cuisine- Bacalaitos & Fireworks is Gottfried's ode to Nuyorican life and style, from the 70s to the present, shot with an unfailingly lyrical eye and full of vibrant personalities: eccentric bad-boys, white-clad church-goers, an afro-sporting poet in a groovy leisure suit, a gambling grandpa with painted-on eyebrows and a cowboy mustache, and even your grandparents' beloved, plastic-covered furniture.
Title: Bacalaitos & Fireworks Publisher: PowerHouse Language: English Publication Date: 2011 Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket Condition: N/ Edition: First Edition Run: N/A Size: 28 x 24 cm Pages: 128
