Area Code 212

Area Code 212 is the journey's end in ice and flames of Seidel's brilliant Cosmos Poems trilogy. Reversing the order and outlook of Dante's Divine Comedy , Seidel's three-book series begins in the heavens (with The Cosmos Poems ) and then descends steeply--through the Purgatory of Life on Earth , the second volume--to at last arrive at home, in Manhattan, with its famous area code.