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Cold New World : Growing up in Harder Country Paperback William Finnegan
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- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- “book intact just a little worn flat”
- Region
- World
- Special Attributes
- Ex-Library
- ISBN
- 9780375753824
- Book Title
- Cold New World : Growing Up in Harder Country
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- History, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Political Economy, Sociology / General, Poverty & Homelessness, Social History
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 12.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days, this narrative nonfiction classic documents the rising inequality and cultural alienation that presaged the crises of today. "A status report onthe American Dream that gets its power from the unpredictable, rich specifics of people's lives."- Time " William Finnegan's real achievement is to attach identities tothesteady stream of faceless statistics that tell us America's social problems are more serious than we want to believe."- The Washington Post A fifteen-year-old drug dealer in blighted New Haven, Connecticut; a sleepy Texas town transformed by crack; Mexican American teenagers in Washington State, unable to relate to their immigrant parents and trying to find an identity in gangs; jobless young white supremacists in a downwardly mobile L.A. suburb. William Finnegan spent years embedded with families in four communities across the country to become an intimate observer of the lives he reveals in Cold New World .What emerges from these beautifully rendered portraits is a prescient and compassionate bookthat never loses sight of its subjects' humanity. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK . A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST NONFICTION SELECTION Praise for Cold New World "Unlike most journalists who drop in for a quick interview and fly back out again, Finnegan spent many weeks with families in each community over a period of several years, enough time to distinguish between the kind of short-term problems that can beset anyone and the longer-term systemic poverty and social disintegration that can pound an entire generation into a groove of despair." - Los Angeles Times Book Review "The most remarkable of William Finnegan's many literary gifts is his compassion. Not the fact of it, which we have a right to expect from any personal reporting about the oppressed, but its coolness, its clarity, its ductile strength. . . . Finnegan writes like a dream. His prose is unfailingly lucid, graceful, and specific, his characterization effortless, and the pull of his narrative pure seduction." - The Village Voice "Four astonishingly intimate and evocative portraits. . . . All of these stories are vividly, honestly and compassionately told. . . . While Cold New World may make us look in new ways at our young people, perhaps its real goal is to make us look at ourselves." - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375753826
ISBN-13
9780375753824
eBay Product ID (ePID)
860071
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cold New World : Growing Up in Harder Country
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Political Economy, Sociology / General, Poverty & Homelessness, Social History
Publication Year
1999
Genre
History, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hv1431.F56 1999
Reviews
"A gripping narrative . . . Finnegan's real achievement is to attach identities to the steady stream of faceless statistics that tell us America's social problems are more serious than we want to believe."--The Washington Post "For years, Bill Finnegan, a masterful reporter, has immersed himself in the world of the young and the lost. The reports he brings from four corners of the country, four desperate corners, will tell you more about the drug problem and more about what ails America than any other book I know of. Cold New World is chilling and dark, but it also vibrates with life."--David Remnick
Copyright Date
1999
Lccn
99-018019
Dewey Decimal
362.7/083/0973
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
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