Yellow Cab
In 2001, anthropology professor Robert Leonard began moonlighting as a cabdriver; Yellow Cab is a portrait of the city he found as he drove the streets of nighttime Albuquerque, picking up everyone from business people and drunken college kids to hookers and drug dealers. In this mixed bag of rich vignettes and interludes of poetry, Leonard offers sharp insights into the workings of the hidden world of an American city after dark.With an ethnographer's eye for fine details and a writer's ear for words, Robert Leonard's portraits of Albuquerque's cabdrivers and their passengers ring every bit as true as the writings of Joseph Mitchell and Jose…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8263-3786-3
- EAN: 9780826337863
- Produktnummer: 34255646
- Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 265 KB
Über den Autor
A former professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico, Robert Leonard lives with his wife and children in rural Iowa where he is a partner in an anthropological consulting firm. On occasion, he wanders back to Albuquerque and climbs into a Yellow Cab.
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