Hard Living on Clay Street: Portraits of Blue Collar Families
". . . it is above all an intensely immediate, even gripping, account of daily life among the white urban poor." --Ms. Magazine"Even more vivid than Tally's Corner, it follows real, if disguised, people through concretely realized days and years." --The Washingtonian"In living with and becoming part of what he studies, Howell developed an understanding and compassion that illuminates every page, and which dramatically raise Hard Living from the status of sociologic monograph to a much larger and deeper story of human motivation and striving." --Rolling Stone"Never again will you find yourself easily able to put down the people whose hopes and fears, dreams and disappointments, violences and loves, inhabit this book." --The New Republic"No soap opera tangles the gold web of life more effectively than these genuine humans do, and not half so fast." --Washington Post