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Tales Of Two Cities:Stories Of Inequality In a Divided New York
[Paperback - 2015]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Anthologies
Additional Category: Literary Essays - Sociology
Publisher: Penguin Books | ISBN: 9780143128304 | Pages: 288
Shipping Weight: .244 | Dimensions: 5.5 x .7 x 8.2 inches

Thirty major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided New York
 
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 world’s response, with leading lights including Zadie Smith, Junot Díaz, 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.

Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.John Freemanis an award-winning writer and book critic who has written for numerous publications, includingThe New Yorker,The New York Times Book Review,The Los Angeles Times,The Guardian, andThe Wall Street Journal. Freeman won the 2007 James Patterson Pageturner Award for his work as the president of the National Book Critics Circle, and was the editor ofGrantafrom 2009 to 2013. He lives in New York City, where he teaches at NYU and edits a new literary biannual calledFreeman's.

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