Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 8 mar. 2016 - 464 pagini
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Luc Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity.

This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city's slums; the teeming streets--scene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded housing is still a prominent feature of the cityscape.

Low Life voyages through Manhattan from four different directions. Part One examines the actual topography of Manhattan from 1840 to 1919; Part Two, the era's opportunities for vice and entertainment--theaters and saloons, opium and cocaine dens, gambling and prostitution; Part Three investigates the forces of law and order which did and didn't work to contain the illegalities; Part Four counterposes the city's tides of revolt and idealism against the city as it actually was.

Low Life provides an arresting and entertaining view of what New York was actually like in its salad days. But it's more than simply a book about New York. It's one of the most provocative books about urban life ever written--an evocation of the mythology of the quintessential modern metropolis, which has much to say not only about New York's past but about the present and future of all cities.

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Pagina ix
Preface THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT NEW YORK, IT MAY BE BRIEFLY DESCRIBED AS CONCERNING THE VICES AND LURES THAT THE CITY PROFFERED TO THE LOWER CLASSES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, AND THE STREETS AND ALLEYS that were their theater.
Pagina xiv
In our time prostitutes walk where prostitutes walked a hundred years ago; the homeless are camped on the sites of nineteenth-century shantytowns; street peddlers pitch their wares in spots that once saw pushcart lineups or thieves' ...
Pagina xxviii
The Dutch village of the seventeenth century is preserved in the close and knotted scale of the streets at the island's lower ... The breakup of the big family estates in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has left both ...
Pagina xxxi
The shantytowns spread through the late nineteenth century to all those dormant spots around and within the unrealized Central Park and well up into Harlem, the last of them not disappearing until the beginning of the present century, ...
Pagina xxxii
After the mid-nineteenth century, the parts of Manhattan that lay ahead of the pick and shoveljumped directly from rural to urban without an intervening suburban stage, as the tempo of construction accelerated.

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Cuprins

Part 1 Landscape
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
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Despre autor (2016)

Luc Sante was born in Verviers, Belgium. His books include Low Life, The Other Paris, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and Kill All Your Darlings. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Grammy (for album notes), an Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography, and Guggenheim and Cullman fellowships. Sante has contributed to The New York Review of Books since 1981, and has written for many other magazines. He is the visiting professor of writing and the history of photography at Bard College and lives in Ulster County, New York.

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TitluLow Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
AutorLuc Sante
Edițieretipărită
EditorFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016
ISBN1466895632, 9781466895638
Lungime464 pagini
  
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