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Tales of two cities

Paperback • 2016 • English • 1. edition

Tales of two cities: the best and worst of times in today's New York

By John Freeman

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About the book

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 Diaz, and Lydia Davis bearing witness to the experience of ordinary New Yorkers in ...Show more

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ISBN

9780143128304

Publisher

Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

Published year

2016

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Tales of two cities

Format

Paperback

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