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Grand Central Winter

Stories from the Street

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Kiadó: Seven Stories Press
Kiadás helye: New York
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Kötés típusa: Fűzött kemény papírkötés
Oldalszám: 239 oldal
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Nyelv: Angol  
Méret: 22 cm x 15 cm
ISBN: 1-888363-57-6
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"Like Jack London, [Lee Stringer] is a self-educated storyteller of the first rank This man can write!" —from the foreword by Kurt Vonnegut
"If Lee Stringer had merely been to hell and back, it would be admirable But what he's done is far more impressive: He's made the trip with style He writes with clear-eyed compassion, savage grace, and wrenching honesty. Oh, yes, he's alsó very funny."
—Peter Blauner, bestselling author of The Intruder anó Slow Motion fíiot
Whether Lee Stringer is describing "God's corner" as he calls 42nd Street, or his friend Suzy, a hooker and "past-due tourist" whose infant child he sometimes babysits, whether he is recounting his experiences at Street News, where he began hawking the newspaper for a living wage, then wrote articles, and served for a time as muckrak-ing senior editor, whether it is his adventures in New York's infamous Tombs jail, or performing community service, or sleeping in the tunnels below Grand Central Station by night and... Tovább

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"Like Jack London, [Lee Stringer] is a self-educated storyteller of the first rank This man can write!" —from the foreword by Kurt Vonnegut
"If Lee Stringer had merely been to hell and back, it would be admirable But what he's done is far more impressive: He's made the trip with style He writes with clear-eyed compassion, savage grace, and wrenching honesty. Oh, yes, he's alsó very funny."
—Peter Blauner, bestselling author of The Intruder anó Slow Motion fíiot
Whether Lee Stringer is describing "God's corner" as he calls 42nd Street, or his friend Suzy, a hooker and "past-due tourist" whose infant child he sometimes babysits, whether he is recounting his experiences at Street News, where he began hawking the newspaper for a living wage, then wrote articles, and served for a time as muckrak-ing senior editor, whether it is his adventures in New York's infamous Tombs jail, or performing community service, or sleeping in the tunnels below Grand Central Station by night and collecting cans by day, this is a book rich with small acts of kindness, humor and even heroism alongside the expected violence and desperation of life on the street. There is always room, Stringer writes, "amid the costume-jewel glitter for one more diamond in the rough." Vissza

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Lee Stringer

Lee Stringer műveinek az Antikvarium.hu-n kapható vagy előjegyezhető listáját itt tekintheti meg: Lee Stringer könyvek, művek
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