Giant - Giant
Giant - Giant

Giant

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Résumé de l'éditeur NBM Publishing

New York, early 1930s. A mysterious, laconic Irish colossus known as ‘Giant' sweats blood, along with his fellow immigrants, to build the skyscrapers of Rockefeller Center. For a while, he... En lire plus

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  • 15/04/2020

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STOP RIGHT HERE: ABSOLUTE GEM! New York city, early 1930s, the New York of the Great Depression, the assent of Franklin Roosevelt to power and Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights. But also the unstoppable rise of the skyscraper: sometimes, development in a city is so quick and transformative that it can physically be felt. Carl Sandburg writes in his 1916 poem (naturally called “Skyscraper”): “By day, the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and has a soul. […]. It is the men and women, boys and... En lire plus