An edition of Flophouse (2000)

Flophouse

life on the Bowery

1st ed.
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An edition of Flophouse (2000)

Flophouse

life on the Bowery

1st ed.
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"In Flophouse, documentarians David Isay and Stacy Abramson and photographer Harvey Wang chronicle this vanishing world through the voices and portraits of a number of those residents, interspersed with photographs of their surroundings. The men come from all manner of backgrounds, and the rich variety of the tales they tell is a testament to the number of ways the bottom can fall out of life in America, even in prosperous times.

This book warrants comparison with Walker Evans and James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, but the authors were inspired most directly by Joseph Mitchell, who wrote about some of these same flophouses with an honest warmth and an acceptance of life as it's found. Shimmering with humanity and utterly devoid of false sentiment, Flophouse is a powerful reminder that even on the margins, life defies all attempts at reduction."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Pages
150

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Flophouse: life on the Bowery
2000, Random House
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Interviews., Portraits., Anecdotes., Pictorial works.
Other Titles
Life on the Bowry

Classifications

Library of Congress
HV4046.N6 I83 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 150 p. :
Number of pages
150

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3968252M
Internet Archive
flophouselifeonb00isay
ISBN 10
0375503226
LCCN
2001274377
OCLC/WorldCat
44772953
Library Thing
10770
Goodreads
1002747

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