Central Park (Then and Now: New York) Review

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Central Park (Then and Now: New York) ReviewThis is a wonderful book, and very much worthy of the series. I'd like to point out just one small error, though. The Rachael Robinson Elmer postcard reproduced on p. 71 does not show any part of Central Park; in fact the site it depicts is one and a half cross-town blocks away from the Park. The postcard shows the staircase at the southeast corner of _Morningside_ Park, just north of the northwest intersection of Manhattan Avenue with 110th Street. The Ninth Avenue Elevated ran along 110th Street at this point and thus was visible from this staircase. The staircase is still there and instantly recognizable from Elmer's painting. The only Central Park staircase that afforded a view of the Elevated (though it was an angled view, not straight on as in Elmer's postcard), the one at the northwest corner of Central Park just across from where the Elevated curved north from 110th Street into 8th Avenue, also still exists and is of a very different construction from the one Elmer painted. At least two postcards exist that show that view from Central Park, but Elmer's is not one of them.
Bob Hymes
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Tom's Job ReviewTom Howell, a ski-bum in Aspen, falls in love at 25. Fifteen years later, he's a divorced father and editor at a conference in New York, where he is supposed to host an esoteric discussion on property and casualty insurance, which is doomed to fail.
The questions, then, that Tom Howell poses are these: Can a nice guy who thrived in the freedom of Aspen make it in a work-a-day world, where his crazy boss runs a marginal company? Can Tom, who is basically a passive loner, find meaning in his busy life, which really just sort of happened to him?
Interestingly, Ethan Cooper takes the story of this sad-sack and finds both poignancy and hilarity, as Tom Howell fights back in New York and retains his sanity. Of course, it helps that the malingering Tom shirks his conference responsibilities and visits Central Park and the Jazz Standard, as well as accommodates an inebriated booth-babe, who passes out in his hotel room. Cooper is also smart to develop the character of Jim Schuster, a life-of-the-party type who is the master of any craziness.
This is the third Ethan Cooper novel that I've read and this one is my favorite. The reason: In SMOOTH IN MEETINGS and IN CONTROL, Cooper focused on very linear goal-oriented businessmen who actually lived very narrow lives. In contrast, Cooper's characters in TOM'S JOB range from a billionaire investor to Tom, a likable schlemiel. This range of personalities creates a very rich brew, where knowledge of, and affinity for, corporate life, aren't really necessary to appreciate a completely involving narrative. It's a fast read, too.
There's a great scene near the end, by the way, when Tom contemplates the pebbled texture of the ceiling in his hotel room. Read it... you'll see what I mean.
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