With the same eye for character, anecdote and circumstance that made Peter Ackroyd’s London and Colin Jones’s Paris so successful, Levine’s captivating prose integrates the sights, sounds and feel of Toronto with a broad historical perspective, linking the city’s present with its past through themes such as politics, transportation, public health, ethnic diversity and sports. Toronto invites readers to discover the city’s lively spirit over four centuries and to wander purposefully through the city’s many unique neighborhoods, where they can encounter the striking and peculiar characters who have inhabited them: the powerful and powerless, the entrepreneurs and the entertainers, and the moral and the corrupt, all of whom have contributed to Toronto’s collective identity.

与彼得-阿克罗伊德的《伦敦》和科林-琼斯的《巴黎》一样，莱文以其对人物、轶事和环境的洞察力，将多伦多的风景、声音和感觉与广泛的历史视角结合起来，通过政治、交通、公共卫生、种族多样性和体育等主题将该市的现在和过去联系起来。多伦多》邀请读者去发现这个城市四个世纪以来的活泼精神，并有目的地在这个城市的许多独特的社区中漫步，在那里他们可以遇到居住在这些社区中的引人注目的奇特人物：有权势的人和无权势的人，企业家和艺人，以及道德的人和腐败的人，所有这些人都对多伦多的集体身份做出了贡献。