The Mural at the Waverly Inn: A Portrait of Greenwich Village Bohemians | 
 enlarge | Author: Edward Sorel
Publisher: Pantheon
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 131227
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 56
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 0307377318
Dewey Decimal Number: 759.13
EAN: 9780307377319
ASIN: 0307377318
Publication Date: October 28, 2008
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Product Description
The Waverly Inn has been a landmark in New York’s Greenwich Village since the 1920’s. But since 2006, when Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter bought and refurbished the restaurant, it has also been one of the most sought after destinations in the city. And while we can’t guarantee you a reservation there, we can bring you the wonderful, witty mural by Edward Sorel that graces its walls.
Sorel--whose caricatures and drawings regularly appear in The New Yorker and on its cover--chose forty Greenwich Village greats from the past 150 years to cavort in bacchanalian splendor. Each of the 40 makes a solo appearance in these pages alongside a charming, telling vignette of his or her life by Dorothy Gallagher, then appears in a foldout of the entire mural at the back of the book.
Here you will find Walt Whitman being attacked by a ferocious Truman Capote butterfly; Jane Jacobs, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and Willa Cather playing ring-around the rosy; those famous denizens of the White Horse Tavern, Dylan Thomas--who breakfasted on beer and lunched on brandy--and Jack Kerouac, typing his long roll of a novel. Anais Nin appears nude, which, Gallagher points out, was her usual state. Norman Mailer admires himself in a reflecting pond. Here, too, are Djuna Barnes and Edna St. Vincent Millay, Jackson Pollack and James Baldwin, Thelonius Monk, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez, Andy Warhol and Fran Lebowitz, Margaret Sanger, Marlon Brando, and many others.
The Mural at the Waverly Inn is an enduring delight to treasure and to give.
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If You Can't See the Mural at Waverly Inn in Person, this is an ok subsititute. December 9, 2008
The Waverly Inn has been a Greenwich Village institution since the 1920s. When it was purchased by a group of investors, including Vanity Fair Editor-In-Chief Craydon Carter, they refurbished it, and commissioned a mural of many of the boldfaced names of Greenwich Village's past. Designed and painted by Edward Sorel (The New Yorker), the mural places each of the forty-three artists, writers, actors and personalities into scenes that best suits their history as seen by a noted caricaturist. Each of the subjects has been isolated into a single page, with a short, pithy biography written by Gallagher. There is a pull-out of the entire mural, that isn't large enough to truly experience the original, but will give you a feel for it, until you can arrange for a visit to NYC, and get reservations at Waverly Inn yourself.
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