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Product Identifiers
PublisherWashington Square Press
ISBN-100671036548
ISBN-139780671036546
eBay Product ID (ePID)511380
Product Key Features
Book TitleGrand Central Winter
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicCultural Heritage, Poverty & Homelessness, Literary, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year1999
FeaturesReprint
GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorLee Stringer
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight11.7 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-265889
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsThe New York Times Book ReviewThe prose lengthens out into easy strides, the storytelling is sound and the characters fresh., Library JournalThe book gives full humanity to its troubled characters and homes in on the motivations, strategies, and relationships of people surviving on the streets....Highly recommended., BooklistStringer's crisp detail, straight no-chaser wit, and uncompromising frankness are as bracing as his subject is significant., Peter Blaunerbestselling author ofThe IntruderandSlow Motion RiotIf Lee Stringer had merely been to hell and back, it would be admirable....But what he's done is for more impressive: He's made the trip with style. He writes with clear-eyed compassion, savage grace, and wrenching honesty. Oh yes, he's also very funny., Publishers Weekly[A] candid, sad, yet upbeat memoir....Stringer possesses a sharp eye for the street and the rich, sagacious talent of a storyteller., The New York Times Book ReviewStringer gives us the long view of New York's underbelly, born of pain but delivered with style and heart., New York Daily NewsStringer weaves his gritty scenes with fluid commentary on how things work and what they mean, in language that combines the punch of the streets with the ideas of a careful thinker.
Dewey Decimal362.509
Table Of ContentContents Foreword by Kurt VonegutPrefaceAcknowledgments1What happened was I was2When I was out there3The Streets of New York City, 19854Grand Central Terminal, Winter 1985, 12:30 A.M.5Grand Central Terminal, Winter 19896West Forty-sixth Street, Winter 19897In New York City there are three8Hell's Kitchen, Fall 19949Valentine's adoptive father10On every smut film11I was having a real12I was smoked out, tapped out13It's time for my nightly14Sure, life on the street15Dear Homey,16Manhattan has only two17His name is Marvin18If, at the time of thisAfterword
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisIn the underground tunnels below Grand Central Terminal, Lee Stringer -- homeless and drug-addicted over the course of eleven years -- found a pencil to run through his crack pipe. One day, he used it to write. Soon, writing became a habit that won out over drugs. And soon, Lee Stringer had created one of the most powerful urban memoirs of our time. With humane wisdom and a biting wit, Lee Stringer chronicles the unraveling of his seemingly secure existence as a marketing executive, and his odyssey of survival on the streets of New York City. Whether he is portraying "God's corner," as he calls 42nd Street, or his friend Suzi, a hooker and "past-due tourist" whose infant he sometimes baby-sits; whether he recounts taking shelter underneath Grand Central by night and collecting cans by day, or making a living hawking Street News on the subway, Lee Stringer conveys the vitality and complexity of a down-and-out life. Rich with small acts of kindness, humor, and even heroism amid violence and desperation, Grand Central Winter offers a touching portrait of our shared humanity., In the underground tunnels below Grand Central Terminal, Lee Stringer -- homeless and drug-addicted over the course of eleven years -- found a pencil to run through his crack pipe. One day, he used it to write. Soon, writing became a habit that won out over drugs. And soon, Lee Stringer had created one of the most powerful urban memoirs of our time.With humane wisdom and a biting wit, Lee Stringer chronicles the unraveling of his seemingly secure existence as a marketing executive, and his odyssey of survival on the streets of New York City. Whether he is portraying "God's corner," as he calls 42nd Street, or his friend Suzi, a hooker and "past-due tourist" whose infant he sometimes baby-sits; whether he recounts taking shelter underneath Grand Central by night and collecting cans by day, or making a living hawkingStreet Newson the subway, Lee Stringer conveys the vitality and complexity of a down-and-out life. Rich with small acts of kindness, humor, and even heroism amid violence and desperation,Grand Central Winteroffers a touching portrait of our shared humanity.
LC Classification NumberHV4506.N6S77 1998
