Lee Stringer
Autore di cioccolato o vaniglia
Sull'Autore
Lee Stringer: For three years in the mid-1990s Stringer served as a senior editor of Street News, eventually becoming editor-in-chief. In 1996, he sought treatment and recovery for drug addiction at Project Renewal. His recent writing has appeared in The Nation and the New York Times among other mostra altro publications, and in collections. Stringer's commentaries can be heard on NPR's All Things Considered. He currently serves on three nonprofit boards: Project Renewal in New York City, the Friends of the Mamaroneck Library, and the Youth Shelter Program of Westchester. He lives in Mamaroneck, New York, where he grew up mostra meno
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Stringer, Lee
- Data di nascita
- 20th Century
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Attività lavorative
- homeless
workless
writer
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 6
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 328
- Popolarità
- #72,311
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 28
- Lingue
- 8
I read the entire book in a single evening.
This isn't the kind of book that is going to give a lot of Answers. It doesn't explain why people are homeless or what being homeless is like, but it does tell the story of one man who was homeless and addicted to crack for a long stretch in the eighties and early nineties. He is processed through shelters, arrested several times for vagrancy and other minor offenses, is sentenced to community service, sleeps in subway ramps, witnesses crimes and commits a few (mostly trespassing, vagrancy, drug possession.) He also writes, becomes the senior editor for Street News, intervenes in a mugging, appears on Geraldo, and survives years of homelessness with wit and dignity intact.
Stringer is a good writer. There are shades here of Vonnegut (one of his earliest, most vocal supporters), London, Bukowski. But in the end his voice is all his own. He succeeds in humanizing homelessness, and also in showing us that most of the ways we respond to homelessness, both as a society and individually, are pretty crap. Shelters that scam various systems, teaching the homelessness to become scammers themselves, laws that penalize the powerless on behalf of the powerful, and the misguided, self-involved, and sometimes downright mean ways people behave.
This is a book to expand your horizons.… (altro)