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(0)Lucy Sante
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A vivid investigation into the seamy underside of nineteenth and twentieth century Paris"--
"A trip through Paris as it will never be again--dark and dank and poor and slapdash and truly bohemian Paris, the City of Light. The city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of soft cheese and fresh baguettes. Or so tourist brochures would have you believe. In The Other Paris, Luc Sante reveals the city's hidden past, its seamy underside--one populated by...
Author
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of articles on photographers, musicians, artists, and writers, many of them with a strong autobiographical element and sense of place, the Lower East Side of New York City where the author came of age in the fertile 1970s and '80s. He traces his engagement with music and photography, his experience of the city, and his development as an artist and observer, in a series of pieces that range from memoir to essay, fiction to critical analysis,...
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