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New Yorkers - A City and Its People in Our Time (Paperback)
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New Yorkers - A City and Its People in Our Time (Paperback)
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List price R479
Loot Price R450
Discovery Miles 4 500
You Save R29 (6%)
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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. Here are the uncelebrated people who propel New York each
day-bodega cashier, hospital nurse, elevator repairman, emergency
dispatcher. Here are those who wire the lights at the top of the
Empire State Building, clean the windows of Rockefeller Center, and
keep the subway running. Here are people whose experiences reflect
the city's fractured realities: the mother of a Latino teenager
jailed at Rikers, a BLM activist in the wake of police shootings.
And here are those who capture the ineffable feeling of New York,
such as a balloon handler in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade or
a security guard at the Statue of Liberty. Vibrant and bursting
with life, New Yorkers explores the nonstop hustle to make it; the
pressures on new immigrants, people of color, and the poor; the
constant battle between loving the city and wanting to leave it;
and the question of who gets to be considered a "New Yorker." It
captures the strength of an irrepressible city that-no matter what
it goes through-dares call itself the greatest in the world.
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