Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Charlie LeDuff gives his incomparable take on the city and its denizens-the bars, the workingmen, the gamblers, the eccentrics, the lonesome, and the wise.
Work and Other Sins is filled to burst with stories of the fascinating, one-of-a-kind characters who populate the modern metropolis. In these pages we meet a Long Island used-car salesman; a professional Santa; the men who change the light bulbs atop the Empire State Building; a Sinatra imitator; a retired Harlem chorus-line girl; a lighthouse keeper; a saloon priest; Latin lovers; a host of barroom regulars; and myriad others-all of whom present their take on working, drinking, gambling, dying, and countless other facts of life. Charlie LeDuff takes us to the watering holes, prisons, veterans' hospitals, firehouses, apartment buildings, baseball fields, and graveyards that make up the landscape of modern life. Also included is LeDuff's acclaimed series of articles on Squad One, the Brooklyn firehouse that suffered devastating losses on September 11, as well as his Pulitzer Prize-winning piece on workers in a North Carolina slaughterhouse.
LeDuff captures the spirit of the people and places he profiles with a dead-on feel for character and idiom and his signature wry wit. But more than that, LeDuff lets his characters speak for themselves. What results is at turns riotous, dirt-under-the-nails, contemplative, salty, joyous, whiskey tinged-an utterly unique vision of life in the Big Apple and beyond.
發表於2024-12-26
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評分New York is a glamorous city, and full of glamorous people. This is a city where you can find entrepreneurs, lawyers, bankers, investment bankers, and movie stars ect., where people dress well and eat well, where people shops in big and fancy stores. We get...
評分New York is a glamorous city, and full of glamorous people. This is a city where you can find entrepreneurs, lawyers, bankers, investment bankers, and movie stars ect., where people dress well and eat well, where people shops in big and fancy stores. We get...
評分New York is a glamorous city, and full of glamorous people. This is a city where you can find entrepreneurs, lawyers, bankers, investment bankers, and movie stars ect., where people dress well and eat well, where people shops in big and fancy stores. We get...
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評分Simple but meaningful
Work and Other Sins 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載