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New Yorkers : a city and its people in our time

Title
New Yorkers : a city and its people in our time / Craig Taylor.
ISBN
9780393242324
0393242323
9780393242331
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Physical Description
xxv, 398 pages : map ; 25 cm
Notes
Includes index.
Summary
"A symphony of contemporary New York through the magnificent words of its people-from the best-selling author of Londoners. In the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, social injustice, and pandemic. New Yorkers weaves the voices of some of the city's best talkers into an indelible portrait of New York in our time-and a powerful hymn to the vitality and resilience of its people. Best-selling author Craig Taylor has been hailed as "a peerless journalist and a beautiful craftsman" (David Rakoff), acclaimed for the way he "fuses the mundane truth of conversation with the higher truth of art" (Michel Faber). In the wake of his celebrated book Londoners, Taylor moved to New York and spent years meeting regularly with hundreds of New Yorkers as diverse as the city itself. New Yorkers features 75 of the most remarkable of them, their fascinating true tales arranged in thematic sections that follow Taylor's growing engagement with the city"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 04, 2021
Contents
Introduction
Overture: a sense of the city
Nonstop hustle
Stressed out
Building stories
The rich are different
Crime and punishment
Interlude: A Sunday on the street
Clashing in the streets
Song of the Rockaways
Life is a parade
Beneath the streets
The teeming shore
Pandemic city
Interlude: Another Sunday on the street
The golden door
Winning and losing
Getting out
The end of the journey
Coda: A last Sunday on the street.
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