Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts Hardcover - 2004
by Charlie LeDuff
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Charlie LeDuff gives his incomparable take on the city and its denizens-the bars, the workingmen, the gamblers, the eccentrics, the lonesome, and the wise.
Work and Other Sins is filled to burst with stories of the fascinating, one-of-a-kind characters who populate the modern metropolis. In these pages we meet a Long Island used-car salesman; a professional Santa; the men who change the light bulbs atop the Empire State Building; a Sinatra imitator; a retired Harlem chorus-line girl; a lighthouse keeper; a saloon priest; Latin lovers; a host of barroom regulars; and myriad others-all of whom present their take on working, drinking, gambling, dying, and countless other facts of life. Charlie LeDuff takes us to the watering holes, prisons, veterans' hospitals, firehouses, apartment buildings, baseball fields, and graveyards that make up the landscape of modern life. Also included is LeDuff's acclaimed series of articles on Squad One, the Brooklyn firehouse that suffered devastating losses on September 11, as well as his Pulitzer Prize-winning piece on workers in a North Carolina slaughterhouse.
LeDuff captures the spirit of the people and places he profiles with a dead-on feel for character and idiom and his signature wry wit. But more than that, LeDuff lets his characters speak for themselves. What results is at turns riotous, dirt-under-the-nails, contemplative, salty, joyous, whiskey tinged-an utterly unique vision of life in the Big Apple and beyond.
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- Title Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts
- Author Charlie LeDuff
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 357
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Press, New York
- Date 2004-01-26
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781594200021 / 1594200025
- Weight 1.52 lbs (0.69 kg)
- Dimensions 9.56 x 6.36 x 1.29 in (24.28 x 16.15 x 3.28 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003054945
- Dewey Decimal Code 974.710
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