Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts - Hardcover

Leduff, Charlie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594200025 ISBN 13: 9781594200021

Publisher: Penguin Pr, 2004

Synopsis

Capturing the spirit of New York City and its diverse neighborhoods, this entertaining array of portraits focuses on the colorful, eccentric, and unique characters that populate the modern-day metropolis, including a Long Island used-car salesman, a professional Santa, a Sinatra imitator, a retired Harlem chorus girl, a lighthouse keeper, and a saloon priest. 35,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

Blunt and touching... Rendered with respect and the style of a cardsharp. ("The New York Times Book Review") [This] extraordinary collection of profiles is an ode to the regular Joe. ("Entertainment Weekly") LeDuff has a knack for prying smoky poetry, bleak humor, and heart-on-the-sleeve drama from the denizens of New York's various underbellies. ("Men's Journal")

"Blunt and touching... Rendered with respect and the style of a cardsharp." The New York Times Book Review

"[This] extraordinary collection of profiles is an ode to the regular Joe." Entertainment Weekly

"LeDuff has a knack for prying smoky poetry, bleak humor, and heart-on-the-sleeve drama from the denizens of New York s various underbellies." Men s Journal

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About the Author:

Charlie LeDuff contributed to the 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times series "How Race Is Lived in America" and has also received a Meyer Berger Award for distinguished writing about New York City. He has been a staff reporter at the New York Times since 1999 and is now a member of the Los Angeles bureau. During the war in Iraq, LeDuff was an embedded Times correspondent reporting from Kuwait and Iraq and covered events such as the release of U.S. POWs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1594200025
• ISBN 13: 9781594200021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 357