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Author | : Ann Petry |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2013-08-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547525346 |
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TAYARI JONES “How can a novel’s social criticism be so unflinching and clear, yet its plot moves like a house on fire? I am tempted to describe Petry as a magician for the many ways that The Street amazes, but this description cheapens her talent . . . Petry is a gifted artist.” — Tayari Jones, from the Introduction The Street follows the spirited Lutie Johnson, a newly single mother whose efforts to claim a share of the American Dream for herself and her young son meet frustration at every turn in 1940s Harlem. Opening a fresh perspective on the realities and challenges of black, female, working-class life, The Street became the first novel by an African American woman to sell more than a million copies.
Author | : Anonymous |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2019-04-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781012300371 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : James J. O'Connell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Case studies |
ISBN | : 9780692412343 |
Dr. O'Connell's collection of stories and essays, written during thirty years of caring for homeless persons in Boston, gently illuminates the humanity and raw courage of those who struggle to survive and find meaning and hope while living on the streets.
Author | : Robert Jackall |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2009-08-05 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0674264665 |
Detectives work the streets--an arena of action, vice, lust, greed, aggression, and violence--to gather shards of information about who did what to whom. They also work the cumbersome machinery of the justice system--semi-military police hierarchies with their endless jockeying for prestige, procedure-driven district attorney offices, and backlogged courts--transforming hard-won street knowledge into public narratives of responsibility for crime. Street Stories, based on years of fieldwork with the New York City Police Department and the District Attorney of New York, examines the moral ambiguities of the detectives' world as they shuttle between the streets and a bureaucratic behemoth. In piecing together street stories to solve intriguing puzzles of agency and motive, detectives crisscross the checkerboard of urban life. Their interactions in social strata high and low foster cosmopolitan habits of mind and easy conversational skills. And they become incomparable storytellers. This book brims with the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction violence of the underworld and tells about a justice apparatus that splinters knowledge, reduces life-and-death issues to arcane hair-splitting, and makes rationality a bedfellow of absurdity. Detectives' stories lay bare their occupational consciousness--the cunning and trickery of their investigative craft, their self-images, moral rules-in-use, and judgments about the players in their world--as well as their personal ambitions, sensibilities, resentments, hopes, and fears. When detectives do make cases, they take satisfaction in removing predators from the streets and helping to ensure public safety. But their stories also illuminate dark corners of a troubled social order.
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Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : American wit and humor |
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Author | : John W. Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2014-09-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781936800124 |
Rainy Street Stories is a composition of powerful reflections on today's espionage, terrorism, and secret wars. These stories, essays, and poems by John Davis, himself a retired intelligence officer, take place from Europe, to Asia, and back to the Americas. He lived overseas for many years, where he served as a soldier, civil servant, and gifted linguist. Davis writes with a thoughtful, compassionate, and fair assessment of his lifetime lived during wars and conflicts which were his generation's legacy from World War II. He recounts mysterious, sometimes strangely suggestive, even curiously puzzling tales. Each will cause the reader to think. Davis draws from actual encounters in unusual circumstances, in conversations at utterly unexpected times, and chance meetings, historical site visits, or his readings to illustrate his reflections. Moreover, he is influenced by carefully listening to others who experienced history, from careful study of human nature, observation of international events, but also by remaining open to surprises, the better to distill the essence of a hidden truth. Those people about whom he speculates, events he interprets, motives he muses about, or wonders he reveals will remain with you for a long time. These are not writings to be read in a night, but to be reflected upon over the coming years.
Author | : Chauncey M. Depew |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2017-12-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780484870962 |
Excerpt from The "Man in the Street" Stories; From "the New York Times;" Containing Over Six Hundred Humorous After-Dinner Stories About Prominent Persons Worker laugh. The cr0p, not of chestnuts, but of lively adventures and encounters of wit, between well known people can be gleaned day by day, but there has been heretofore no agency for gathering and dis tributing the harvest. The New York Times, with rare genius and discrimination, has done this beneficent work and won the smiles and gratitude of multitudes through the Man in the Street. This open-eyed and discriminating gentleman has added to the gayety of nations and the happiness of mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Chauncey M. Depew |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2019-03-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780530872728 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Jacob A. Riis |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2022-05-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Out of Mulberry Street Stories of Tenement life in New York City is a book by Jacob A. Riis. It depicts the life and struggle of poor NYC residents during the latter parts of the 19th century.
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Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Book collecting |
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