{"product_id":"grand-central-winter-stories-from-the-street","title":"Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eGrand Central Winter: Stories from the Street\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eLee Stringer; Kurt Vonnegut\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781888363579\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eSeven Stories Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1998\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eWhether Lee Stringer is describing \"God's corner\" as he calls 42nd Street, or his friend Suzy, a hooker and \"past-due tourist\" whose infant child he sometimes babysits, whether he is recounting his experiences at Street News, where he began hawking the newspaper for a living wage, then wrote articles, and served for a time as muckraking senior editor, whether it is his adventures in New York's infamous Tombs jail, or performing community service, or sleeping in the tunnels below Grand Central Station by night and collecting cans by day, this is a book rich with small acts of kindness, humor and even heroism alongside the expected violence and desperation of life on the street. Two events rise over Grand Central Winter like sentinels: Stringer's discovery of crack cocaine and his catching the writing bug. Between these two very different yet oddly similar activities, Lee's life unwound itself, during the 1980s, and took the shape of an odyssey, an epic struggle to find meaning and happiness in arid times. He eventually beat the first addiction with help from a treatment program. The second addiction, writing, has hold of him still.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street | Lee Stringer; Kurt Vonnegut | Hardcover | 9781888363579 | Used: Very Good | Memoir 1607127","offer_id":50679819731202,"sku":"1607127","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71i5CyzApJL.jpg?v=1791367576","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/grand-central-winter-stories-from-the-street","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}