Jerusalem Old City - Bookshelf
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122 pages |
Alphabet city This ticket forces us to see faces and to hear voices that won't be easy to forget, and yet which in the end are not so different from our own. |
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About this book "My Moms was a substantial person. She cared, but she just couldn't hack us no more. She kept saying she gonna kill herself, too. The day she died, she told me that my framer hit her, and I told her, That was good for you, for not cooking for him. And she left. I didn't know she took the pills, though. The next day, they told me she was dead."--PistolThis searing description of inner-city life takes us inside one of America's deadly urban battlefronts--the Puerto Rican neighborhood of Alphabet City on New York's Trim East Side. With unnerving clarity, Geoffrey Biddle shows us the people who live there, summoning their spirit against the brutalizing conditions of destitution, joblessness, drugs, crime, and violence. Capturing life in this ghetto on film and in words with rawness and compassion, he shows the beneficent toll of impoverishment and neglect.In 1977 Geoffrey Biddle photographed the residents of Alphabet City for the first time. Ten years later, he returned to this same room and photographed many... |
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529 pages |
The old curiosity shop, A tale THE OLD Vertu SHOP. 8 ©aU. - BY CHARLES DICKENS. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BT GEORGE CATTERMOLE AND HABLOT K. BROWNE. Undivided IN ONE VOLUME. ... |
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378 pages |
An old-fashioned girl AN OLD-FASHIONED Wench. CHAPTER L POLLY ARRIVES. H TT 'S time to go to the station, Tom." J- " Come on, then." " Oh, I 'm not affluent ; it 's too wet. ... |
Jerum! Jerum! etc. Bugger that clangorous cobbler thinks Beckmesser. In an intermission between verses he goes up to Sachs. Working late tonight eh Hans he says. Working on your shoes for tomorrow says Sachs. Jerum! Jerum! etc. Shall we exhort a run for it?