
Tales of Two Cities
The Best and Worst of Times in Today's New York
By: John Freeman
Paperback | 18 November 2015 | Edition Number 1
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In a city where the top one percent earns more than a half-million dollars per year while twenty-five thousand children are homeless, public discourse about our entrenched and worsening income divide has never been more sorely needed. This remarkable anthology is the literary world's response, with leading lights including Zadie Smith, Junot DÃaz, and Lydia Davis bearing witness to the experience of ordinary New Yorkers in extraordinarily unequal circumstances.
Through fiction and reportage, these writers convey the indignities and heartbreak, the callousness and solidarities, of living side by side with people of starkly different means. They shed light on the subterranean lives of homeless people who must find a bed in the city's tunnels; the stresses that gentrification can bring to neighbors in a Brooklyn apartment block; the shenanigans of seriously alienated night-shift paralegals; the trials of a housing defendant standing up for tenants' rights; and the humanity that survives in the midst of a deeply divided city. Tales of Two Cities is a brilliant, moving, and ultimately galvanizing clarion call for a city—and a nation—in crisis.
About the Author
John Freeman is a former president of the National Book Critics Circle and was editor of Granta until 2013. He has written for the" "New York Times Book Review"," the"" Los Angeles Times"," the" "Wall Street Journal"," and the"" Guardian"" (London).
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"Conveys the reality of today's economic inequality in ways that an academic tome simply can't." --Feministing
ISBN: 9780143128304
ISBN-10: 0143128302
Published: 18th November 2015
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 288
Audience: General Adult
For Ages: 18+ years old
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Country of Publication: US
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 21.1 x 13.9 x 2.0
Weight (kg): 0.25
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