A cry for help
Subtitle: stories of homelessness and hope
By: photographs by Mary Ellen Mark ; introduction by Andrew Cuomo ; preface by Robert Coles ; interviews reported by Victoria Kohn.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
Subjects: Homeless persons -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Case studies; Homeless persons -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Pictorial works; Homeless children -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Case studies; Homeless children -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Pictorial works
Description: A Cry for Help is a vivid and irrefutable picture of the homeless in America, told in their own words. Portraits by acclaimed photographer Mary Ellen Mark join an urgent introduction by Andrew Cuomo, Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, H.U.D. and founder of H.E.L.P. (Housing Enterprise for the Less Privileged). Noted child psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dr. Robert Coles offers a thoughtful preface about the painful effects of homelessness on a child's soul.

In the tradition of classic works of advocacy like Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, this book speaks to our national moral conscience and offers an optimistic message that both personal and social change is possible.
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