- Social conditions, History, Social Marginality, Manhattan (new york, n.y.)
Luc Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city's slums; the teeming streets--scene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded housing is still a prominent feature of the cityscape.
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Cool, grave, plot-driven and prestige.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Lucy Sante, Pablo Duarte
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 414
- Publisher
- Libros del K.O., Granta Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781466895638
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