New Yorkers
New Yorkers
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*Running Time => 14hrs. and 7mins.*Over the last 20 years, New York City has been convulsed by enormous challenges: 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.In the wake of his celebrated book 'Londoners', best-selling author Craig Taylor moved to New York and spent year…
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  • Autorius: Craig Taylor
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  • Metai: 2021
  • Puslapiai: 432
  • ISBN-10: 1848549733
  • ISBN-13: 9781848549739
  • Formatas: 15.3 x 23.3 x 3.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
  • Kalba: Anglų

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*Running Time => 14hrs. and 7mins.*

Over the last 20 years, New York City has been convulsed by enormous challenges: 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.

In the wake of his celebrated book 'Londoners', best-selling author Craig Taylor moved to New York and spent years meeting regularly with hundreds of New Yorkers as diverse as the city itself - rich and poor, old and young, native and immigrant. '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.

Here are the uncelebrated people who propel New York each day - bodega cashier, hospital nurse, elevator repairman, emergency dispatcher. Here are those who wire the lights on at the top of the Empire State Building, clean the windows of Rockefeller Center, and keep the subway running. Here are people whose experiences reflect the city's fractured realities: the mother of a Latino teenager jailed at Rikers, a BLM activist in the wake of police shootings. And here are those who capture the ineffable feeling of New York, such as a balloon handler in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade or a security guard at the Statue of Liberty.

Vibrant and bursting with life, 'NEW YORKERS' explores the nonstop hustle to make it; the pressures on new immigrants, people of color, and the poor; the constant battle between loving the city and wanting to leave it; and the question of who gets to be considered a "New Yorker." It captures the strength of an irrepressible city that - no matter what it goes through - dares call itself the greatest in the world.


©2021 Craig Taylor (P)2021 Recorded Books
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*Running Time => 14hrs. and 7mins.*

Over the last 20 years, New York City has been convulsed by enormous challenges: 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.

In the wake of his celebrated book 'Londoners', best-selling author Craig Taylor moved to New York and spent years meeting regularly with hundreds of New Yorkers as diverse as the city itself - rich and poor, old and young, native and immigrant. '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.

Here are the uncelebrated people who propel New York each day - bodega cashier, hospital nurse, elevator repairman, emergency dispatcher. Here are those who wire the lights on at the top of the Empire State Building, clean the windows of Rockefeller Center, and keep the subway running. Here are people whose experiences reflect the city's fractured realities: the mother of a Latino teenager jailed at Rikers, a BLM activist in the wake of police shootings. And here are those who capture the ineffable feeling of New York, such as a balloon handler in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade or a security guard at the Statue of Liberty.

Vibrant and bursting with life, 'NEW YORKERS' explores the nonstop hustle to make it; the pressures on new immigrants, people of color, and the poor; the constant battle between loving the city and wanting to leave it; and the question of who gets to be considered a "New Yorker." It captures the strength of an irrepressible city that - no matter what it goes through - dares call itself the greatest in the world.


©2021 Craig Taylor (P)2021 Recorded Books

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