the man who walked between the towers by mordicai gerstein

Truly affecting is the book's final painting of the imagined imprint of the towers, now existing 'in memory'-linked by Philippe and his high wire.

Gerstein's dramatic paintings include some perspectives bound to take any reader's breath away. When police race to the top of one tower's roof, threatening arrest, Philippe moves back and forth between the towers ('As long as he stayed on the wire he was free'). An inventive foldout tracking Philippe's progress across the wire offers dizzying views of the city below a turn of the page transforms readers' vantage point into a vertical view of the feat from street level. How Philippe and his pals hang the cable over the 140-feet distance is in itself a fascinating-and harrowing-story, charted in a series of vertical and horizontal ink and oil panels. What a wonderful place to stretch a rope a wire on which to walk.' Disguised as construction workers, he and a friend haul a 440-pound reel of cable and other materials onto the roof of the south tower. When Philippe gazes at the twin buildings, he looks 'not at the towers but at the space between them. He loved to walk and dance on a rope he tied between two trees.' As the man makes his way across the rope from one tree to the other, the towers loom in the background. Zon 10.000 antiquaren, boekhandelaren en particulieren zijn u al voorgegaan. Op koopt en verkoopt u uw tweedehands boeken. The tallest buildings in New York City.' The author casts the French aerialist and street performer as the hero: 'A young man saw them rise into the sky. tweedehands boek, Gerstein, Mordicai - The Man Who Walked Between The Towers.

Gerstein ( What Charlie Heard) begins the book like a fairy tale, 'Once there were two towers side by side. This effectively spare, lyrical account chronicles Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between Manhattan's World Trade Center towers in 1974.

The man who walked between the towers by mordicai gerstein