Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country - Hardcover

Finnegan, William

 
9780679448709: Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679448705 ISBN 13: 9780679448709
Verlag: Random House Inc, 1998

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A writer for The New Yorker magazine presents an unflinching, empathetic report on the state of working-class teenagers in America, from Mexican-American gang members in Washington to white supremacists outside Los Angeles. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

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William Finnegan has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1987. He is the author of A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique; Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters; and Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid, which was named one of the ten best nonfiction books of 1986 by The New York Times Book Review. He was a National Magazine Award finalist in both 1990 and 1995. He lives in New York City with his wife.

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ndbreaking work of social journalism, a spotlight is cast on a population we find it easy, or convenient, to overlook. <br>"While the national economy has been growing, the economic prospects of most Americans have been dimming," William Finnegan writes. <br>"A new American class structure is being born--one that is harsher, in many ways, than the one it is replacing. <br>Some people are thriving in it, of course. This book is about some families who are not. More particularly, it's about their children who are teenagers <br>and young adults, about their lives and times, how they speak and act as they try to find their way in this cold new world.<br> Finnegan spent time with families in four communities across America and became an intimate observer of the lives revealed in these beautifully<br> rendered portraits: A fifteen-year-old drug dealer in blighted New Haven, Connecticut. A sleepy Texas town transformed when crack arrives. <br>Mexican American teenagers in

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Verlag
Random House Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679448705
ISBN 13 
9780679448709
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
421
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