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New Yorkers, a city and its people in our time, Craig Taylor

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New Yorkers

1155075249

Craig Taylor

a city and its people in our time

"A symphony of contemporary New York through the magnificent words of its people-from the best-selling author of Londoners. In the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, social injustice, and pandemic. New Yorkers weaves the voices of some of the city's best talkers into an indelible portrait of New York in our time-and a powerful hymn to the vitality and resilience of its people. Best-selling author Craig Taylor has been hailed as "a peerless journalist and a beautiful craftsman" (David Rakoff), acclaimed for the way he "fuses the mundane truth of conversation with the higher truth of art" (Michel Faber). In the wake of his celebrated book Londoners, Taylor moved to New York and spent years meeting regularly with hundreds of New Yorkers as diverse as the city itself. New Yorkers features 75 of the most remarkable of them, their fascinating true tales arranged in thematic sections that follow Taylor's growing engagement with the city"--, Provided by publisher

Introduction -- Overture: a sense of the city -- Nonstop hustle -- Stressed out -- Building stories -- The rich are different -- Crime and punishment -- Interlude: A Sunday on the street -- Clashing in the streets -- Song of the Rockaways -- Life is a parade -- Beneath the streets -- The teeming shore -- Pandemic city -- Interlude: Another Sunday on the street -- The golden door -- Winning and losing -- Getting out -- The end of the journey -- Coda: A last Sunday on the street