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At least partially drawn from LeDuff's former "Bending Elbows" column in the New York Times's Sunday City section (available only in the five boroughs), the pieces collected here sketch various habitues of city saloons, mostly working men. Clearly in the grip of some potent nostalgia for John O'Hara, LeDuff is, to his credit, pretty respectful of his subjects-bartenders and lounge singers, bankrupt dot-commers and prison inmates, lighthouse keepers and firemen, homeless freaks and transsexual hustlers-basically anyone who fits into his particular concept of poignant, grubby, overlooked humanity. His carefully dry, clipped style honors their experiences and habits, but with the notable exception of one sequence on immigrant laborers in a Long Island suburb, he does little to advance the interests of his subjects. And while LeDuff does provide a handful of familiar female types-a faded chorus girl, a stricken widow, a runaway teenager, a pair of 50-ish spinsters looking for "Mr. Dreamy" and a few old mamas-the city's female workers evidently don't rate as worthy of the name. LeDuff, who now covers L.A. life and lifestyles for the Times, won a Pulitzer in 2001 for a series on race, and produces some nice counterpoints of prejudices, sentiments, pearls of wisdom, and non sequiturs. "When the cocktail set tells me they enjoy the cast of losers... I smile and drink their liquor. They don't know what work is." That may be true, but it's equally clear, with myriad de*ions like "a Laura Ashley girl gone wrong," that LeDuff is writing for them.

Introduction

Wo

Good-bye to Mr. Hello and Good-bye

The Michelangelo of the Hard Sell

Mother's Day? Florists Love and Love It Not

He's No Bob Dole, but He's Still a Celebrity

A Mohawk Trail to the Skyline

"Rasputins"

Gravediggers' Gallows (What Else?) Humor

How Time Goes By on West Forty-third Street

Where Sinatra Fills Your Ears, If Not Your Eyes

A Bleaker Santa's-Eye View

A Barber's SoothingAria

Harlem Nocturne for a Still-Beautiful Chorus Girl

On Top of the World

Where Is King Kong When a Bulb Goes Out?

Stray Thoughts at 1,454 FeetIn the Pit

Hauling the Debris, and Darker Burdens

A Night Shift to Numb the Body and Soul

Hard Hats and Soft Hands at a Ground Zero Bar

On the Corner

Hard Work in Hostile Suburbs

Brooklyn Poles and Jews Refashion Old World Ties

On Land and Sea

Last Days of the Baymen

Springtime for the Harbor Police

The Man to See for Raccoon Pie

So It's a Lighthouse. Now Leave Me Alone

THE SLAUOHTERHOUSE

At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die

JOINTS

At This Bar, Everything Is on the Table

Schlitz on Draft

A Bar on Rails

Smile for the Camera

A Beer Hall with Homegrown Czech Nostalgia

The Harbor Light Stays On

The Lights Are Bright, the Hours Always Happy

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书籍介绍

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Charlie LeDuff gives his incomparable take on the city and its denizens-the bars, the workingmen, the gamblers, the eccentrics, the lonesome, and the wise.

Work and Other Sins is filled to burst with stories of the fascinating, one-of-a-kind characters who populate the modern metropolis. In these pages we meet a Long Island used-car salesman; a professional Santa; the men who change the light bulbs atop the Empire State Building; a Sinatra imitator; a retired Harlem chorus-line girl; a lighthouse keeper; a saloon priest; Latin lovers; a host of barroom regulars; and myriad others-all of whom present their take on working, drinking, gambling, dying, and countless other facts of life. Charlie LeDuff takes us to the watering holes, prisons, veterans' hospitals, firehouses, apartment buildings, baseball fields, and graveyards that make up the landscape of modern life. Also included is LeDuff's acclaimed series of articles on Squad One, the Brooklyn firehouse that suffered devastating losses on September 11, as well as his Pulitzer Prize-winning piece on workers in a North Carolina slaughterhouse.

LeDuff captures the spirit of the people and places he profiles with a dead-on feel for character and idiom and his signature wry wit. But more than that, LeDuff lets his characters speak for themselves. What results is at turns riotous, dirt-under-the-nails, contemplative, salty, joyous, whiskey tinged-an utterly unique vision of life in the Big Apple and beyond.

• 作者：尔尔 发布时间：2011-12-31 01:07:37

  小启蒙

• 作者：白9 发布时间：2013-02-14 10:14:20

  不忍直视

• 作者：168 Hours 发布时间：2014-02-09 21:06:11

  各个分支领域相当齐全的英国通史著作，对于近代以来，英国政治经济社会渐进式改革的措施和战略给予最充分的探讨，也对英国世界霸权几百年的历程进行详实讨论，尤其强调与其他欧陆强国的差异。唯一的缺憾在于二战以后现代英国史的篇幅太少，仅有最后两章~

• 作者：Rebecca喵喵 发布时间：2023-04-18 11:11:52

  如果我们不能改变自己处理事情的思维和看世界的眼光，随着时间的流逝，年龄越来越大，心智没有得到提升，那么遇到问题时我们还是会往错误的方向走。

  这位老师还有另一本书《转念的力量》，心浮气躁的时候就看看，真是心灵的灵丹妙药。

• 作者：世彦君 发布时间：2011-12-26 15:21:36

  本书阐述了罗杰斯，肯定了罗杰斯，批判了罗杰斯，发展了罗杰斯。——不幸的是，卡尔•罗杰斯晚年无法继续坚持他的承诺——尽其所能防止核战争，争取世界和平。1987年1月20日，罗杰斯跌了一跤，臀部骨折住院，就在这一天，他被国会议员吉姆•贝茨提名1987年度诺贝尔和平奖，当时他年届85岁。几周后，1987年2月4日，罗杰斯与世长辞，他至死都是个乐观往前看的人。相对而言，他的一生都是健康、积极的。

• 作者：An 发布时间：2011-06-14 17:39:37

  Simple but meaningful

• 温馨的手写体

  作者：johnnash 发布时间：2011-09-07 10:35:24

         最喜欢里面英文的手写体，看着真舒服。当年背单词怎么也背不下来的时候，偶然逛书店看见了，回家拿钱就买下了。一百元，当时买过最贵的书了。双语的词典适合初学，本来看不懂语法的，一点一点的懂了。很多单词觉得莫名其妙，看过解释和例句之后就记住了。差不多就是这样学进去的，从英语挂科三次，大挂一次，到过四级，过六级，考研顺利通过，现在词汇量达到17000+，一切都要感谢当初偶然的发现和灵机一动的想法。天道酬勤，莫非一切冥冥中自有注定，记忆中曾经用这本词典从头到尾背过几遍考研单词，那段时间，看这本词典不光是为了考试，更多的时候是沉浸其中的享受，孔子说，发愤忘食，乐而忘忧，在这本书中体会到了。学有所得，不止会乐而忘忧，更会多一份自信。感谢这本书带给我的改变。她像是一扇门，推开之后看见另一个世界，豁然开朗。读她的时候从没觉得枯燥，当然是因为内容。还有，纸张的质量很好，摸着很舒服。手写体很漂亮很漂亮，看着很贴心，什么时候，我能写这一手漂亮的手写体呢。

      依然与她为伍，是一件很幸福的事。

• Here's New York

  作者：amstel 发布时间：2014-04-18 08:47:05

  New York is a glamorous city, and full of glamorous people. This is a city where you can find entrepreneurs, lawyers, bankers, investment bankers, and movie stars ect., where people dress well and eat well, where people shops in big and fancy stores. We get to know New York from TV serials such as Friends and the Sex and the City, in which people are fashionable, holding nice jobs and attending various parties. New York is a place, where people around the world want to go and stay and one day call themselves a New Yorker.

   

  Charlie LeDuff, the reporter of the New York Times brings you a different New York, working people’s New York city. His book “Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabout” is about doorman’s life, not about the life of the people who has a doorman.

   

  The book is actually a collection of columns that published in the New York Times, each is a short story about an ordinary working people in the Big Apple, doorman, grave digger, Professional Santa, bartender, Indian workers who lie steel for skyscrapers driving back to reservation in Canada every Friday afternoon and coming to work in New York every Monday, antenna tuner who change bulbs on the top of the Empire State building. They are immigrants of the Big Apple, from Indiana, from Ohio, from Indian reservation, from Casablanca, from places around the world. They come to New York for their dreams. And Have their dreams been fulfilled? Only they know.

   

  You were brought to their lives, where is no fashion clothes, no fashion parties, nothing connect them with the fashionable cosmopolitan city. But they contribute to the growth of the city. Will they be forgot? They cannot answer. When a door man who opened the same door for 33 years retired, he received a note from a young girl who lives in the building: Don’t go, please, I love you. But he has to go. New York is a place to make a living. I was, once, made a living in the New York City.And that's before 911. When time was good and people spend a lot on Christmas.

   

  This is a book about nobody in America and American nobody is very important to the author. This book reminds me of nobody in China and the nobody in China is very important to me. The book reminds of a poem:

   

  I am nobody,

  Who are you?

  Are you nobody too?