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Piecework: Writings on Men & Women, Fools & Heroes, Lost Cities,Vanished Friends.. Hardcover - 1996
by Hamill, Pete
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- Title Piecework: Writings on Men & Women, Fools & Heroes, Lost Cities,Vanished Friends..
- Author Hamill, Pete
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Little, Brown and Company, Boston
- Date 1996-01-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # mon0000691387
- ISBN 9780316341042 / 0316341045
- Weight 1.71 lbs (0.78 kg)
- Dimensions 9.24 x 6.29 x 1.34 in (23.47 x 15.98 x 3.40 cm)
- Reading level 1140
- Library of Congress subjects American essays - 20th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95004738
- Dewey Decimal Code 814.54
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From the rear cover
Veteran journalist Pete Hamill has never covered just politics. Or just sports. Or just the entertainment business, the mob, foreign affairs, social issues, the art world, or New York City. He has in fact written about all these subjects, and many more, in his years as a contributor to such national magazines as Esquire, Vanity Fair, and New York, and as a columnist at the New York Post, the New York Daily News, the Village Voice, and other newspapers. Seasoned by more than thirty years as a New York newspaperman, Hamill writes on an extraordinarily wide variety of topics in powerful language that is personal, tough-minded, clearheaded, always provocative. Piecework is a rich and varied collection of Hamill's best writing since 1970, on such diverse subjects as what television and crack have in common, why winning isn't everything, stickball, Nicaragua, Donald Trump, why American immigration policy toward Mexico is all wrong, Brooklyn's Seventh Avenue, and Frank Sinatra, not to mention Octavio Paz, what it's like to realize you're middle-aged, Northern Ireland, New York City then and now, how Mike Tyson spent his time in prison, and much more. This collection proves him once again to be among the last of a dying breed: the old-school generalist, who writes about anything and everything, guided only by passionate and boundless curiosity. Piecework is Hamill at his very best.
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Citations
- Booklist, 11/15/1995, Page 0
- Kirkus Reviews, 10/01/1995, Page 1399
- Library Journal, 12/01/1995, Page 120
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 09/15/1995, Page 56
- Publishers Weekly, 12/18/1995, Page 38