Craig Taylor
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
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From the best-selling author of Londoners, a symphony of contemporary New York in the magnificent words of its people.Over the last twenty years, New York City has been convulsed by enormous challenges: terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, pandemic. New Yorkers is a grand portrait of the irrepressible city and a hymn to the vitality and resilience of its people.Craig Taylor spent years meeting New Yorkers—rich and poor, old and young, native and immigrant—and getting them to share indelible true tales. Here are the voices of those who propel the city each day—subway conductor, nurse, bodega cashier, electrician who keeps the ligh…
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From the best-selling author of Londoners, a symphony of contemporary New York in the magnificent words of its people.Over the last twenty years, New York City has been convulsed by enormous challenges: terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, pandemic. New Yorkers is a grand portrait of the irrepressible city and a hymn to the vitality and resilience of its people.Craig Taylor spent years meeting New Yorkers—rich and poor, old and young, native and immigrant—and getting them to share indelible true tales. Here are the voices of those who propel the city each day—subway conductor, nurse, bodega cashier, electrician who keeps the lights on at the top of the Empire State Building—as well as unforgettable glimpses of the city, from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade by a balloon handler to the Statue of Liberty by one of its security guards. New Yorkers captures the strength of the city that—no matter what it goes through—dares call itself the greatest in the world.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-24233-1
- EAN: 9780393242331
- Produktnummer: 34783548
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 2 maps
Über den Autor
Craig Taylor is the author of the best-selling Londoners and the editor of Five Dials. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Globe & Mail, and McSweeney's. He lives in western Canada.
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