"A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves."
―John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Lucy Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding...
A now-classic portrait of the underside of America's greatest city, Low Life tells the true story of the growth of Manhattan, not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues and robber barons, but the turbulent, often murderous story of the city's slums.