Frommer's Irreverent Guides: Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Manhattan

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For readers who are tired of the promotional fluff and brochure-speak that characterizes most travel guides, here's a fresh voice. The Irreverent Guides offer an insider's look at each destination, and take a fun, honest look at everything they review. The Irreverents give you the lowdown, the inside story. They have nothing to sell but the truth, which includes a balance of good and bad. They praise, they trash, they weigh, and leave the final decision up to the reader. Our writers take a special pleasure in leading you where other guides fear to tread.Now with new covers, indexes, and more irreverence than ever!Discover the real New York, the one the locals love to hate. Here are great hotels for misbehavingfrom luscious love nests to the endearingly eccentricand where to rock and where to get lox around the clock. And of course we've got the best of New York nightlife, from theater, opera, and jazz to clubbing on the Lower East Side, and unearthing the remnants of an older, grittier Times Square.