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Title: Low Life : Lures and Snares of Old New York by Luc Sante ISBN: 0-679-73876-2 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 September, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.65 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The ride of your life.
Comment: I have read this book four times in the last ten years or so. Once for research, the last three times for entertainment. Don't let "critics", who complain that Luc Sante's sources are questionable, prevent you from reading this book. Not every detail might be EXACTLY right; even when the comments are of doubtful origin, there's no doubt that they are valuable to students, first-timers and long-timers, to the subject of New York's history. This is not a scholarly textbook and it doesn't claim to be. Sante's style, and the illustrations that pepper the book, evoke the dark world of old New York. You'll find this book to be fascinating, provocative, and, in my case, inspirational. After I read this book, I began writing my novel called THE FIVE POINTS, which has recently been published. Thank you, Mr. Sante.
Rating: 5
Summary: Well written & entertaining tale of the REAL "old New York"
Comment: People who think that New York City reached its low point in the 1970s (or the 1980s) as the Bronx burned and crime seemed to be on every streetcorner sometimes tend to idealize the past. Perhaps it was shaped from movies from the 20s and 30s that seemed to show a simpler NYC, or maybe it was just plain misguided nostalgia.
Sante does a fantastic job of recounting the dark underbelly of New York City in the 19th and early 20th century, going into gory details about the horrible poverty along the Bowery and Lower East Side (areas that have seen extensive gentrification since the late 1980s), the filthy streets and disease outbreaks among the city's immigrant masses, the proliferation of street gangs (some of whom were representing NYC police) and other, well, "low lifes." Sante gives an engaging, well-paced description of the oft-overlooked problems a booming industrial-age city like New York was going through and boldly goes where no historian has gone before.
Required reading if you are a NYC (or urban) history fan.
Rating: 5
Summary: REALLY cool
Comment: Its just a cool book about old new york. All the sleeze and scum and drugs and prostitution and raw sewage of society is here to learn about. Learn about this amazing city before it became the glorious place with million dollar condo's and uppedy stores on 57th Street.
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Title: The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld by Herbert Asbury, Jorge Luis Borges ISBN: 1560252758 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum by Tyler Anbinder ISBN: 0452283612 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (Penguin Classics) by Jacob A. Riis, Luc Sante ISBN: 0140436790 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Banished Children of Eve, A Novel of Civil War New York by Peter Quinn ISBN: 0140230033 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Five Points : by Rocco Dormarunno ISBN: 0595204465 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 12 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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