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050 00 $aPS3566.E2564$bZ46 2015
082 00 $a818/.5403$aB$223
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100 1 $aPedersen, Laura,$eauthor.
245 10 $aLife in New York :$bhow I learned to love squeegee men, token suckers, trash twisters, and subway sharks /$cLaura Pedersen.
264 1 $aGolden, CO :$bFulcrum Publishing,$c[2015]
300 $a191 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Laura Pedersen, author of bestseller Play Money and award-winning Buffalo Gal, serves up a hilarious memoir about three decades of city life. Originally from Buffalo, New York, friends thought the seventeen year old was suffering from blizzard delirious when she left Buffalo for Manhattan. Pedersen experiences her adopted city in the best and worst of times while becoming the youngest person to have a seat on the stock exchange, performing stand up comedy, and writing a column in the New York Times. Neighborhoods that feature chai bars, Pilates studios, and Gymboree were once drug dens, ganglands, and shantytowns. A trip to Central park often ended in central booking, identifying a perp in a lineup. New Yorkers are as diverse as the city they so colorfully inhabit, cautious but generous, brash but welcoming. Both are captured through the comedic eye of Pedersen. Enjoy an uproarious romp down memory lane as the city emerges as the modern metropolis we know today. Laura Pedersen is an author, humorist, and playwright. She was also the youngest person at age twenty to have a seat on the American Stock Exchange, while earning a finance degree at New York University's Stern School of Business. She writes for the New York Times and is the author of Play Money, Beginner's Luck (chosen as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection), Planes Trains, and Auto-Rickshaws, Buffalo Gal and Buffalo Unbound"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aPedersen, Laura.
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650 0 $aNovelists, American$y20th century$vBiography.
650 0 $aNovelists, American$y21st century$vBiography.
650 0 $aFloor traders (Finance)$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.$2bisacsh