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Jonathan Raban: Hunting Mr Heartbreak [2018] paperback ZCHAR New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik'Jonathan Raban is simply one of the great writers of non fiction at work today. I hold his work in awe.' Robert Macfarlane 'Unfailingly witty and entertaining.' Salman Rushdie Following in the footsteps of countless emigrants, Jonathan Raban takes ship for New York from Liverpool, to explore how succeeding generations of newcomers have fared in America. He finds a country of massive contrasts, between the Street People and the Air People in New York,