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Download or read book Low Life written by Lucy Sante and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic social history of corruption and vice in nineteenth-century NYC: “A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves” (John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review). Lucy Sante’s Low Life is a portrait of America’s greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city’s slums; the teeming streets—scene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded housing is still a prominent feature of the cityscape. Low Life voyages through Manhattan from four different directions. Part One examines the actual topography of Manhattan from 1840 to 1919; Part Two, the era’s opportunities for vice and entertainment—theaters and saloons, opium and cocaine dens, gambling and prostitution; Part Three investigates the forces of law and order which did and didn’t work to contain the illegalities; Part Four counterposes the city’s tides of revolt and idealism against the city as it actually was. Low Life is one of the most provocative books about urban life ever written—an evocation of the mythology of the quintessential modern metropolis, which has much to say not only about New York’s past but about the present and future of all cities.
Download or read book Lowlifes written by Brian Buccellato and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Los Angeles is not all sunshine, surfing, and red carpets. Behind the facade, the City of Angels is an illicit, morally ambiguous world of fading dreams. GRAND is a revenge-seeking cop clinging to the good man he was. LEONARD is an addict who wants his family back. RIP is a haunted thug embroiled in underground fighting. And WENDALL is the criminal corruptor pulling all of their strings. In the seedy L.A. underworld, lives intersect like freeway overpasses. When Wendall's poker game is robbed, these three lowlifes attempt to stay one step ahead of each other, becuase redemption or destruction is their only ticket out."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Lowlife written by Alexander Baron and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Complete Lowlife written by Ed Brubaker and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witty and poignant, this collection of semi-autobiographical tales focuses on love, despair, lost friendships, and the murky morality of stealing from work. Known for being one of the funniest series ever published in comics form, Lowlife dissects the Slacker / Generation X lifestyle from the inside out, bringing a great amount of humanity to the process along the way.
Download or read book Firmin written by Sam Savage and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I had always imagined that my life story...would have a great first line: something like Nabokov's 'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins;' or if I could not do lyric, then something sweeping like Tolstoy's 'All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.'... When it comes to openers, though, the best in my view has to be the first line of Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier: 'This is the saddest story I have ever heard.'" So begins the remarkable tale of Firmin the rat. Born in a bookstore in a blighted 1960's Boston neighborhood, Firmin miraculously learns how to read by digesting his nest of books. Alienated from his family and unable to communicate with the humans he loves, Firmin quickly realizes that a literate rat is a lonely rat. Following a harrowing misunderstanding with his hero, the bookseller, Firmin begins to risk the dangers of Scollay Square, finding solace in the Lovelies of the burlesque cinema. Finally adopted by a down-on-his-luck science fiction writer, the tide begins to turn, but soon they both face homelessness when the wrecking ball of urban renewal arrives. In a series of misadventures, Firmin is ultimately led deep into his own imaginative soul--a place where Ginger Rogers can hold him tight and tattered books, storied neighborhoods, and down-and-out rats can find people who adore them. A native of South Carolina, Sam Savage now lives in Madison, Wisconsin. This is his first novel.
Download or read book Schmucks! written by Jackie Mason and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jackie Mason, one of the true kings of comedy, and his partner in crime, federal prosecutor and celebrity attorney Raoul Felder, go after America's lowlifes, scumbags, and everything else that really gets on their nerves. This book spares no one. Politicians, sports stars, celebrities, corporations, publishers, crossing guards—they're all fair game. If you are a scumbag, or just someone who Jackie and Raoul find annoying, there is a fair chance you are on the list. Schmucks! combines Mason's and Felder's nails-to-the-wall political satire with insightful observations on the foibles of modern life to create material that will leave you crying with laughter. Just a few of the Schmucks included are: Bill Clinton Mel Gibson Barbra Streisand Katie Couric Barry Bonds And a cast of hundreds
Book Synopsis Outbursts of a Professional Lowlife; Thoughts of a Sober Barfly by : Baethan Balor
Download or read book Outbursts of a Professional Lowlife; Thoughts of a Sober Barfly written by Baethan Balor and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I observed no human face other than my own and corresponded with no one this Christmas.
Book Synopsis Murder in Gotham by : Isidore Haiblum
Download or read book Murder in Gotham written by Isidore Haiblum and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refusing to go to the police, the wife of a missing man comes to Yiddish detective Morris Weiss for help, in a case that takes him into the dark underworld of the Lower East Side where he makes a shocking discovery. Original.
Book Synopsis Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter by : Carol Ann Lee
Download or read book Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter written by Carol Ann Lee and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter, Carol Ann Lee tells, for the first time, the stories of those women who came into Sutcliffe's murderous orbit, restoring their individuality to them and giving a voice to their families, including the twenty-three children whom he left motherless.
Book Synopsis A Low Life in High Heels by : Holly Woodlawn
Download or read book A Low Life in High Heels written by Holly Woodlawn and published by Perennial. This book was released on 1991 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bound to captivate the many fans of the motion picture Paris Is Burning, Woodlawn's autobiography is a walk on the wild side with Andy Warhol's last superstar and the avant-garde community of the 1960s and '70s. At the age of 16, Harold became Holly Woodlawn and skyrocketed to fame as a superstar in Warhol's movie Trash. "This is must reading".--Harvey Fierstein. Photographs.
Book Synopsis The Lowlife Companion by : Glenn Barr
Download or read book The Lowlife Companion written by Glenn Barr and published by . This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 64 pg. book in glorious black and white measuring 7 inches x 9 inches.Here for the first time is a collection of 100's of drawings from Barr's personal sketchbook. Glenn's quick and sensitive line work gives insight into the artist's active cerebral cortex.Too much to take in one sitting. Published exclusively by Tin Man Alley Press.This serves as a companion book to Glenn Barr's definitive art book, Lowlife Paradise published by La Luz de Jesus.
Download or read book Streetwalkers written by Scot Sothern and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid 1980s photographer and writer Scot Sothern embedded himself in the dark inner-city hallows of Los Angeles and took photographs and wrote about what he saw. He shone a light upon the discarded people whose daily existence consisted of glass pipes and slaps across the face, men and women who never had a chance in this world. In 2011, 25 years after beginning the project, this documentation led to his first solo show, Lowlife, at the notorious Drkrm Gallery in Los Angeles. Previously dormant, undiscovered, and rejected by a plethora of editors and curators, this show brought much attention to Sothern and lead to two books: one of photographs called Lowlife and a memoir called Curb Service. Sothern's work has since become an Internet live wire eliciting either accolades or condemnation from anyone who comes across it. Streetwalkers is a bleak, real examination of street prostitution in contemporary America by an artist and writer whose own illicit compulsions and literary muscle inform every page. This is the complete collection of Sothern's work from the Lowlife years as well as from recent shoots. In addition, included are his features from "Nocturnal Submissions," his online column for VICE magazine. With new work and previously unpublished stories, this 30-year project is now final and should continue to cause strong reactions from all who see it.
Download or read book Romantic Lowlife Fantasies written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic Lowlife Fantasies: Emerging Adults in the Age of Hope is award-winning photographer Laura June Kirsch's first monograph. Co-edited by Kirsch and Juxtapoz editor-in-chief Evan Pricco, the collection examines an era of hopeful hedonism for a generation that came of age between 9/11 and a recession that put the traditional American Dream just out of reach.Kirsch has captured a unique time with these photographs and draws a connection from how her own 20s turned out ("nothing like what I was told") to the lives of fellow millennials she met while making the book, "free spirits in cities across America, living out their adult lives in unconventional ways."
Download or read book Becoming a Giant written by Cole Lemme and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the written works of Cole D. Lemme, including the weird poetry, short stories, other tales, notes, and essays.
Download or read book Junkyard Blues written by Al Moye and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cameroon life isnt only like living in limbo, it is like living in the very centre of a hellish junkyard where dreams are dumped and wishes shattered at will by forces which can barely be controlled or understood. It is in this junkyard of dreams that Jude Maimo finds himself after years of studies and obtaining a university degree that could not even procure him a decent job. Reluctantly living under his brothers care after having failed grossly in an attempt to be independent, and doing a job that is more than an insult to him, he still hopes to one day live his simple dream; furthering his education long enough to have a respectable and decent job that could make him truly independent. Entangled in a relationship he can barely understand and weighed down by the daily temptations of natural life, a long lost friend from back in his school days suddenly appears as a light to lead him to the end of the tunnel. But a little too late, he discovers that the promised light of salvation is just another face of darkness, a darkness that wants more than his soul, a darkness that can only lead to tragedy.
Download or read book Lowlife written by Simon Eddisbury and published by Blake Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arrested for the first time for selling MDMA to an undercover police officer, but by no means a career criminal, Simon Eddisbury was about to experience the prison system from the inside. He had only been dabbling in crime to pay off a student loan but he soon realized that he was going to go down. Eddisbury resolved to make the best of his punishment. He would spend his time finding out what motivates the mind of the contemporary criminal. It would be something to focus on to help him get through the month which stretched out in front of him. With no idea of what to expect or who he would meet, he knew he had no option. Alone and terrified in prison, he nevertheless steeled himself to speak to more than 50 of his fellow offenders--from drugs dealers to armed robbers to killers. Eddisbury's investigation was going to take him into a dark and seedy world inhabited by people intent on taking what doesn't belong to them by whatever mean necessary. His interviews give voice to those whose views are rarely heard. Some inmates are good people driven to crime through difficult circumstances, but a shockingly high number are completely amoral and lead very dark lives indeed. Crack, smack, guns, knives, torture, and mutilation are all commonplace features of the margins of society. Welcome to the lowlife.
Download or read book High Life Low Life written by Liam Gildea and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are living with bipolar illness or have a family member with the illness, this book may prove to be of some help. Whilst living with a mental health condition can be extremely difficult it can be a great teacher. By the end of the book you will realise that no mental illness defines you as a person. You're on the cusp of a life worth living, it's just a matter of making the next right step.
