Sleeping with the Mayor: A True Story
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Book Overview
Sleeping with the Mayor is a riveting tale of power and powerlessness, race, class and individual personalities presented as vividly as in a novel. In the shadow of City Hall, but with no one to guide... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1886913145
ISBN13:9781886913141
Release Date:January 1997
Publisher:Ruminator Books
Length:361 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"
Customer Reviews
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Jiler writes like Tom Wolfe, my highest compliment.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
This is the new Tom Wolfe novel I've been waiting for since "Bonfire of the Vanities," even though it's not a novel and Tom Wolfe didn't write it. This vivid recounting of battles waged by a group of New York's homeless is a hilarious page-turner, not what you would expect. Author John Jiler, a freelance writer for the Village Voice, writes first-hand about events he lived, and fills the book with deeply known, extraordinary characters, in Quixotic combat with New York Mayor Ed Koch. The unwelcome residents of "Kochville," a park across the street from City Hall, come together for an overnight vigil in pouring rain, and stay together week after week to create a community for themselves and each other which none of them even dreamed possible. Great reading!
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