Floating City : Hustlers, Strivers, Dealers, Call Girls and Other Lives in Illicit New York

ISBN-13: 9780141977393 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str.

Sudhir Venkatesh

Opis

'Floating City' features Sudhir Venkatesh's journey through the 'vast invisible continent' of New York's underground economy - a thriving yet largely unseen world that exists in parallel to our own.

Recenzje

A deeply researched, revealing study... novelistic... an unexpectedly vivid image of a New York not many get to see Craig Taylor Guardian

O autorze

Sudhir Venkatesh is the William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology, and the Committee on Global Thought, at Columbia University. His last book Gang Leader for a Day, based on the decade he spent with the Black Kings gang in Chicago, was an international bestseller and received a Best Book award from The Economist. He lives in New York City.