In a new volume of journalistic essays, the eclectic author of A Drinking Life offers sharp commentary on diverse subjects, such as American immigration policy toward Mexico, Mike Tyson, television, crack, Northern Ireland and Octavio Paz.
This book is for
EDWARD KOSNER
“Full of the passions, action, opinions, and excesses one would expect from a man moving through all the journalistic hot spots of the last quarter century… The best of the book is flamboyant, fierce, and funny.”
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“Rock-solid… Hamill has a great eye and ear for detail and nuance, and the talent to evoke a real sense of places that no longer exist, especially the New York City of his childhood.”
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“Acute. Candid. Courageous. Eloquent. Humane… Hamill’s best may be the best of the genre.”
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“A tour through the most frightening and fascinating decades of our lifetime, by a guide who has been in the front of the bus all the way… Nearly all of Hamill’s ruminations on the dark edges of society are as fresh as tomorrow’s headlines.”
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“Hamill takes the mundane and the great, spins them through his psyche, and delivers absolute poetry of the streets… Without so much as an adjective or adverb, Hamill puts you where he is, right at the table (or under it), club-crawling with Frank Sinatra, arguing with Mike Tyson, or (verbally) dissecting Madonna.”
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“Hamill has been writing for more than thirty years. Yet he retains a passion, a curiosity, a disgust for injustice that keeps his writing fresh and his spirit young. He delivers pieces of the world in thousand-word chunks that sound like truth, well-told; that inform and nourish. That, nothing else, is the standard measure of
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NOVELS
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
JOURNALISM
MEMOIR
Acclaim for Pete Hamill’s Piecework
Books by Pete Hamill
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: THE CITIES OF NEW YORK
PART II: THE LAWLESS DECADES
PART III: MEXICO
PART IV: OUT THERE
PART V: TALENT IN THE ROO
PART VI: POSITIO PAPERS
PART VII ROLLING THE DICE
As a writer for newspapers and magazines, I’ve been blessed by good editors. I’ve acknowledged elsewhere the inspiring influence of Paul Sann, who in my mind will always be the editor of the
