(纽约众生相)Work and Other Sins:Life in New York City and Thereabouts
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作者： Charlie LeDuff 著
出 版 社： Oversea Publishing House
出版时间： 1996-12-1字数：版次：页数：印刷时间： 1996-12-1开本： 16开印次：纸张：I S B N ： 9781594200021包装： 精装内容简介
At least partially drawn from LeDuff's former "Bending Elbows" column in the New York Times's Sunday City section (available only in the five boroughs), the pieces collected here sketch various habitues of city saloons, mostly working men. Clearly in the grip of some potent nostalgia for John O'Hara, LeDuff is, to his credit, pretty respectful of his subjects-bartenders and lounge singers, bankrupt dot-commers and prison inmates, lighthouse keepers and firemen, homeless freaks and transsexual hustlers-basically anyone who fits into his particular concept of poignant, grubby, overlooked humanity. His carefully dry, clipped style honors their experiences and habits, but with the notable exception of one sequence on immigrant laborers in a Long Island suburb, he does little to advance the interests of his subjects. And while LeDuff does provide a handful of familiar female types-a faded chorus girl, a stricken widow, a runaway teenager, a pair of 50-ish spinsters looking for "Mr. Dreamy" and a few old mamas-the city's female workers evidently don't rate as worthy of the name. LeDuff, who now covers L.A. life and lifestyles for the Times, won a Pulitzer in 2001 for a series on race, and produces some nice counterpoints of prejudices, sentiments, pearls of wisdom, and non sequiturs. "When the cocktail set tells me they enjoy the cast of losers... I smile and drink their liquor. They don't know what work is." That may be true, but it's equally clear, with myriad descriptions like "a Laura Ashley girl gone wrong," that LeDuff is writing for them.
目录
Introduction
Work
Good-bye to Mr. Hello and Good-bye
The Michelangelo of the Hard Sell
Mother's Day? Florists Love and Love It Not
He's No Bob Dole, but He's Still a Celebrity
A Mohawk Trail to the Skyline
"Rasputins"
Gravediggers' Gallows (What Else?) Humor
How Time Goes By on West Forty-third Street
Where Sinatra Fills Your Ears, If Not Your Eyes
A Bleaker Santa's-Eye View
A Barber's SoothingAria
Harlem Nocturne for a Still-Beautiful Chorus Girl
On Top of the World
Where Is King Kong When a Bulb Goes Out?
Stray Thoughts at 1,454 FeetIn the Pit
Hauling the Debris, and Darker Burdens
A Night Shift to Numb the Body and Soul
Hard Hats and Soft Hands at a Ground Zero Bar
On the Corner
Hard Work in Hostile Suburbs
Brooklyn Poles and Jews Refashion Old World Ties
On Land and Sea
Last Days of the Baymen
Springtime for the Harbor Police
The Man to See for Raccoon Pie
So It's a Lighthouse. Now Leave Me Alone
THE SLAUOHTERHOUSE
At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die
JOINTS
At This Bar, Everything Is on the Table
Schlitz on Draft
A Bar on Rails
Smile for the Camera
A Beer Hall with Homegrown Czech Nostalgia
The Harbor Light Stays On
The Lights Are Bright, the Hours Always Happy
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