Tales of Two Cities: Stories of Inequality in a Divided New York

John Freeman

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Edité par Penguin Putnam Inc, 2015

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Thirty major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided New York In a city where the top one percent earns more than a half-million dollars per year while twenty-five thousand children are homeless, public discourse about our entrenched and worsening wealth gap has never been more sorely needed. This remarkable anthology is the literary world's response, with leading lights including Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz, and Lydia Davis bearing witness to the experience of ordinary New Yorkers in extraordinarily unequal circumstances. Through fiction and reportage, these writers convey the indignities and heartbreak, the callousness and solidarities, of living side by side with people of starkly different means. They shed light on the subterranean lives of homeless people who must find a bed in the city's tunnels; the stresses that gentrification can bring to neighbors in a Brooklyn apartment block; the shenanigans of seriously alienated night-shift paralegals; the trials of a housing defendant standing up for tenants' rights; and the humanity that survives in the midst of a deeply divided city. Tales of Two Cities is a brilliant, moving, and ultimately galvanizing clarion call for a city-and a nation-in crisis.…

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Titre
Tales of Two Cities: Stories of Inequality in a Divided New York
Auteur
John Freeman
Éditeur
Penguin Putnam Inc
Année de publication
2015
État de l'article
Very Good
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Paperback
Langue
anglais
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0143128302
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780143128304

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