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Envision that Alice had walked into a bar instead of falling down the rabbit gap. In the custom of J. R. Moehringer's The Sensitive Club and the basic reportage of Joseph Mitchell, here's an indelible family portrait of what's quite possibly the best bar in the world - and the mercurial, superb man behind it. The first time he observed Sunny's Club, in 1995, Tim Sultan was lost, thirsty for a drink, and intrigued by the sole bar sign among the list of forlorn warehouses coating the Brooklyn waterfront. Inside, he found a dimly lit room filled with maritime artifacts, twelve well-seasoned drinkers, and, strangely, a projector playing a classic Martha Graham dance performance. Sultan recognized he had stumbled upon someplace special. What he didn't know was that he had just found his new home. Soon enough, Sultan has quit his office job to bartend full-time for Sunny Balzano, the bar's owner. A wild-haired Tony Bennett lookalike with a fondness for quoting Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett, Sunny is actually original. Delivered next to the saloon that has been in his family for one 100 years, Sunny has through the years partied with Andy Warhol, put in time in India at your feet of a master, and coated abstract expressionist originals. But his masterpiece is the bar itself, a location in which a sublime mixture of music artists, mobsters, honky-tonk musicians, neighborhood drunks, nuns, longshoremen, and assorted eccentrics rub elbows. Place against the setting of a quickly changing city, Sunny's Times is a loving and singular family portrait of the fantasy experience we are all searching for every time we head into a bar, and an charming memoir of any unlikely and abiding friendship.
