Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New YorkLuc Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. |
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—Sally S. Eckhoff, Village Voice Literary Supplement “A systematic, well-researched historical account of drinking, drugging, whoring, murder, corruption, vice and miscellaneous mayhem in late-19th- and early-20th-century New York City ...
Naturally, some halted there and never left, falling into the mire of drinking or prostitution or getting themselves murdered for their boots or maimed for their good looks. Very early, the Bowery acquired a reputation as the last stop ...
Much was made of the vice of murder, in that Victorian way of seeing murder as a sybaritic pleasure indulged in by those sated with mere sex.' At the same time, a print depicting “The Dying Mother—A Scene in the Old Brewery” shows this ...
... first on the scene of fire or murder; and by visiting nurses and other social workers whose duties took them to the domiciles of the very poorest, who invariably lived on the upper stories after the eradication of cellar lodgings.
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Comentariu Utilizator - kapheine - LibraryThingThere were a handful of interesting parts, but a lot of it turned into a laundry list of names. Once I decided to start skipping over parts that went too far down into details I started enjoying it a little more. Citește recenzia completă
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Comentariu Utilizator - datrappert - LibraryThingIt took me much longer than it should have to finish this book, because I was constantly putting it down to look up people on Wikipedia or to track down referenced books on Project Gutenberg or ... Citește recenzia completă
Cuprins
xxv | |
Part 2 Sporting Life | ciii |
Part 3 The Arm | ccxxxix |
Part 4 The Invisible City | 107 |
Afterword | 363 |
A Note on Sources | 381 |
Notes | 391 |
Index | 403 |