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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C 0 N T E N T S Landscape THE BODY 3 HOME - 23 STREETS • 46 Sporting Life THE LIGHTS - 71 SALOON CULTURE - 104 HOP - 141 CHANCE - 152 THE LOST SISTER HOOD - 177 The Arm GANGLAND 197 COPPERS - 236 THE TIGER • 25I SAINTHOOD 278 ...
Note cellars, saloon, roof garden, catwalk, as well as the rich variety of domestic dramas o A survey cited by Jacob Riis in the 1890s distinguished. Tenement interior circa 1905: making the best of a bad situation.
... besides drying laundry: for running messages and cups of sugar from one apartment to another, or—stretched diagonally down to the ground— for conveying groceries to the elderly infirm or growlers of beer up from the corner saloon.
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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 |