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Chargement... Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country (Modern Library Paperbacks)par William Finnegan
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Top-notch ethnography. Finnegan's technique is to abandon all pretense of objectivity and live with his subjects for months at a time. His commitment, sensitivity, and steadfast refusal to condescend produces amazing results. The people profiled in Cold New World are mostly teenagers, and are mostly on the losing end of some broader trend of social decay. In the hands of a lesser writer, the impoverished inner city blacks, Latino gang members, and Southern California neo-Nazi punks that Finnegan depicts would have quickly devolved into sociological stereotypes. But Finnegan keeps the focus tight, so that social conditions are understood through depictions of specific, real personalities, instead of the other way around. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days, this narrative nonfiction classic documents the rising inequality and cultural alienation that presaged the crises of today. "A status report on the American Dream [that] gets its power [from] the unpredictable, rich specifics of people's lives."--Time "[William] Finnegan's real achievement is to attach identities to the steady stream of faceless statistics that tell us America's social problems are more serious than we want to believe."--The Washington Post A fifteen-year-old drug dealer in blighted New Haven, Connecticut; a sleepy Texas town transformed by crack; Mexican American teenagers in Washington State, unable to relate to their immigrant parents and trying to find an identity in gangs; jobless young white supremacists in a downwardly mobile L.A. suburb. William Finnegan spent years embedded with families in four communities across the country to become an intimate observer of the lives he reveals in Cold New World. What emerges from these beautifully rendered portraits is a prescient and compassionate book that never loses sight of its subjects' humanity. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST NONFICTION SELECTION Praise for Cold New World "Unlike most journalists who drop in for a quick interview and fly back out again, Finnegan spent many weeks with families in each community over a period of several years, enough time to distinguish between the kind of short-term problems that can beset anyone and the longer-term systemic poverty and social disintegration that can pound an entire generation into a groove of despair."--Los Angeles Times Book Review "The most remarkable of William Finnegan's many literary gifts is his compassion. Not the fact of it, which we have a right to expect from any personal reporting about the oppressed, but its coolness, its clarity, its ductile strength. . . . Finnegan writes like a dream. His prose is unfailingly lucid, graceful, and specific, his characterization effortless, and the pull of his narrative pure seduction."--The Village Voice "Four astonishingly intimate and evocative portraits. . . . All of these stories are vividly, honestly and compassionately told. . . . While Cold New World may make us look in new ways at our young people, perhaps its real goal is to make us look at ourselves."--The Philadelphia Inquirer Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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