Herbert Asbury

Broschiertes Buch

The Gangs Of New York

Beschreibung

The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence centred around the infamous slum of Five Points, with its rival Irish and American gangs.

Autor

Herbert Asbury was born into a strictly Methodist family in Missouri in 1889. His pious background and his subsequent rejection of Methodism greatly influenced both his philosophy of life and his career as reporter and author. Indeed, many of his books deal with the darker, seamier side of American life. He is best know for his true crime books set in the 19th and early 20th century America. He died in 1963 of chronic lung problems, the legacy of a gas-attack in France during the first World War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arrow Books / Random House UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 542167
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9780099436744
• ISBN-10: 0099436744
• Artikelnr.: 10647681

Rezensionen

Asbury was a realist and mid-Western moralist whose book is, as Gopnik notes, 'a kind of surrealist collage of the city's secret history' Robert McCrum Observer