Tales of Two Cities: Stories of Inequality in a Divided New

Tales of Two Cities: Stories of Inequality in a Divided New York

Thirty major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided New York
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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 wealth gap has never been more sorely needed. This remarkable anthology is the literary worldâ€™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 cityâ€™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 tenantsâ€™ 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 cityâ€”and a nationâ€”in crisis.
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Paperback
Color Purple
ReleaseDate 2015-09-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780143128304

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Paperback
Color	Purple
ReleaseDate	2015-09-08
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780143128304

Tales of Two Cities: Stories of Inequality in a Divided New York

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