‘This is the first book I’ve read in two years that has caused me to sit up until the early hours to finish it, and the denouement was as satisfying as those in Earthly Powers, Presumed Innocent, The New City, The Bonfire Of The Vanities, The Deptford Trilogy or any of the other novels that have induced me to start drinking coffee after midnight’ Dylan Jones GQ on The Dispatcher A chilling thriller repackaged in the new brand look Promotional campaign in place for a Ryan David Jahn moment in summer 2012
A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves.
Low Life is about crimes and drugs and violence in the modern world's most glamorous city New York. This is true underground history, in which corrupt cops and immigrant gangs act out our outlaw dream of America.
Toward the end of September a letter arrived from a New York State prison . It was from Martha , but it looked like a child's handwriting . To Mr. Nat Marley , the Private Eye , I've had more fun in the last two months than I've had in ...
(Low)life is a gripping memoir from Charles Farrell, a world-class jazz musician and self-admitted "fight fixer" and "gangster.
Her stand-in last week was a young man, unsuitably named, I think, for a home help, Craig, who wears a Russian fur hat while he washes the dishes and who studies fine art in Holland when he isn't elbow-deep in the sink.
If you are living with bipolar illness or have a family member with the illness, this book may prove to be of some help.
At the age of 16, Harold became Holly Woodlawn and skyrocketed to fame as a superstar in Warhol's movie Trash. "This is must reading".--Harvey Fierstein. Photographs.
High Life, Low Life
Victorian Liverpool - the setting, indeed the hero, of this book - appalled and fascinated social commentators who took the trouble to inspect it. As well as the early sociologists...
To show how this transformation came about--and why it remained incomplete--The Factory of Facts combines family anecdote and ancestral legend; detailed forays into Belgian history, language, and religion; and deft synopses of the American ...