Tales of Two Cities

The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York

John Freeman

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Penguin
01 December 2015

Fiction & Literature; Poverty & unemployment; Homelessness; Social classes; Social welfare & social services

Thirty major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided New York

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 extraordinarily unequal circumstances. Through fiction and reportage, these writers convey the indignities and heartbreak, the callousness and solidarities, of living side by side with people of starkly different means. They shed light on the subterranean lives of homeless people who must find a bed in the city's tunnels; the stresses that gentrification can bring to neighbors in a Brooklyn apartment block; the shenanigans of seriously alienated night-shift paralegals; the trials of a housing defendant standing up for tenants' rights; and the humanity that survives in the midst of a deeply divided city. Tales of Two Cities is a brilliant, moving, and ultimately galvanizing clarion call for a city-and a nation-in crisis.

By: John Freeman
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 250g
ISBN: 9780143128304
ISBN 10: 0143128302
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 December 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Freeman is a former president of the National Book Critics Circle and was editor of Granta until 2013. He has written for the New York Times Book Review , the Los Angeles Times , the Wall Street Journal , and the Guardian (London).

Reviews for Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York

A bristling portrayal of New York in the tradition of Jacob Riis. Guernica Conveys the reality of today s economic inequality in ways that an academic tome simply can t. Feministing