Tämä sivusto käyttää evästeitä palvelujen toimittamiseen, toiminnan parantamiseen, analytiikkaan ja (jos et ole kirjautunut sisään) mainostamiseen. Käyttämällä LibraryThingiä ilmaiset, että olet lukenut ja ymmärtänyt käyttöehdot ja yksityisyydensuojakäytännöt. Sivujen ja palveluiden käytön tulee olla näiden ehtojen ja käytäntöjen mukaista.
"Whether writing about a racetrack gambler, a firefighter with a broken heart, or a pair of bickering brothers and their Coney Island bar, LeDuff takes a reader into the lives of his subjects to explore their fears, faults, and fantasies as well as their own small niches of the globe. In doing so, he has expanded the jurisdiction of the news story from competent reports on political campaigns and budget bills to include the love lives of B-rate gangsters and the moral qualms of unapologetic drunks. He has tackled race, class, sex, death, work, and alcohol as topics, to name a few." "Work and Other Sins is a paean to the real New York - not the candied Big Apple of the movies or the flashy neon metropolis of ad campaigns. Here is a book that proves the guy on the bar stool has just as much to say about life as the stiff in the suit."--Jacket.… (lisätietoja)
Work and other Sins. Life in New York City and thereabouts is a tender portrait of the city of New York, that emerges from essays about a very careful selections of some of New York's most original city dwellers.
The urban structure of a city often obscures the underlying landscape, which forms a link with the past history of the city. A superficial description of traffic, infrastructure, sky scrapers, etc lacks the quality of specificity to distinguish modern cities. Many books like this fail to catch the details that build up a really comprehensive image of the city as a whole.
However, Charlie LeDuff has done a very good job in describing the people of New York an thereby the city itself. His portraits of a number of old citizens, and their dying out occupations such as fishermen in the bay area, trappers, etc creates detailed portraits of the landscape and the rural structure of the city before it froze into the concrete superstructure. There are touching stories of people affected by 9/11, and portraits of people from all walks of life.
LeDuff 's writing style is that of a careful observer. While many journalists tend to describe people as idiosyncratic caricatures, specifically drawing their physical and facial characteristics, LeDuff describes their lives, background and surroundings in meticulous detail.
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
The word newspaper-writer, means, at the very least, a scoundrel. I am one of them. I work with them. I shake hands with them. I'm even told I've begun to look like one. But I shan't die as one.
--Anton Chekhov
Omistuskirjoitus
Ensimmäiset sanat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Among the more fantastic nobodies hanging from my family tree are a pair of heavy-drinking lighthouse keepers, a sleepy morphine addict, a grave robber, a rumrunner, a streetwalker, a numbers maker, a dean of a sham college and a police informant.--Introduction.
Sitaatit
Viimeiset sanat
Erotteluhuomautus
Julkaisutoimittajat
Kirjan kehujat
Alkuteoksen kieli
Kanoninen DDC/MDS
Kanoninen LCC
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"Whether writing about a racetrack gambler, a firefighter with a broken heart, or a pair of bickering brothers and their Coney Island bar, LeDuff takes a reader into the lives of his subjects to explore their fears, faults, and fantasies as well as their own small niches of the globe. In doing so, he has expanded the jurisdiction of the news story from competent reports on political campaigns and budget bills to include the love lives of B-rate gangsters and the moral qualms of unapologetic drunks. He has tackled race, class, sex, death, work, and alcohol as topics, to name a few." "Work and Other Sins is a paean to the real New York - not the candied Big Apple of the movies or the flashy neon metropolis of ad campaigns. Here is a book that proves the guy on the bar stool has just as much to say about life as the stiff in the suit."--Jacket.
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The urban structure of a city often obscures the underlying landscape, which forms a link with the past history of the city. A superficial description of traffic, infrastructure, sky scrapers, etc lacks the quality of specificity to distinguish modern cities. Many books like this fail to catch the details that build up a really comprehensive image of the city as a whole.
However, Charlie LeDuff has done a very good job in describing the people of New York an thereby the city itself. His portraits of a number of old citizens, and their dying out occupations such as fishermen in the bay area, trappers, etc creates detailed portraits of the landscape and the rural structure of the city before it froze into the concrete superstructure. There are touching stories of people affected by 9/11, and portraits of people from all walks of life.
LeDuff 's writing style is that of a careful observer. While many journalists tend to describe people as idiosyncratic caricatures, specifically drawing their physical and facial characteristics, LeDuff describes their lives, background and surroundings in meticulous detail.
A book that deserves a much wider readership. (