num_pages: 384
description: Capturing the spirit of New York City and its diverse neighborhoods, this entertaining array of portraits focuses on the colorful, eccentric, and unique characters that populate the modern-day metropolis, including a Long Island used-car salesman, a professional Santa, a Sinatra imitator, a retired Harlem chorus girl, a lighthouse keeper, and a saloon priest. 35,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts
titlecomplete: Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts
genres: Biography, American, The United States Of America, Politics, Labor, Nonfiction, Reportage, Essays, New York, Journalism
ratings_count: 483
publisher: Penguin Press HC, The