Tales of two cities
Subtitle: the best and worst of times in today's New York
By: edited by John Freeman
Publisher: OR Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781939293633
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Miscellanea; Literary collections; City and town life; Anecdotes
Description: "Growing inequality is today a world-wide phenomenon. But it is at its most acute in the 'world cities' where the rich choose to live (or invest their fortunes in real estate). Nowhere is this more evident than New York City, where the top 1% earns upwards of $500,000/year, while 22,000 children are homeless. What does this chasm of wealth feel like to people who live and work in NYC? The stories in Tales of Two Cities mix fiction and reportage to convey the indignities and heartbreak, the callousness and solidarities, of living side-by-side with people who have a stupefyingly different income."--