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Grand Central Winter, Expanded Second Edition
- Stories from the Street
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 7 hrs
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Summary
In the underground tunnels below Grand Central Terminal, Lee Stringer - homeless and drug-addicted for 11 years - found a pencil to run through his crack pipe. One day he used it to write. Soon writing became a habit that won out over drugs, and before long Stringer had created one of the most powerful urban memoirs of our time.
With humane wisdom and a biting wit, Stringer chronicles the unraveling of his seemingly secure existence as a marketing executive and his odyssey of survival on the streets of New York. Whether he is portraying "God's corner", as he calls 42nd Street, or his friend Suzi, a hooker and "past-due tourist" whose infant he sometimes babysits, whether he recounts taking shelter underneath Grand Central by night and collecting cans by day or making a living hawking Street News on the subway, Lee Stringer conveys the vitality and complexity of a down-and-out life.
Rich with small acts of kindness, humor, and even heroism amid violence and desperation, Grand Central Winter offers a touching portrait of our shared humanity.
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- P. B. Hall
- 28-02-20
Superb reading
Kevin Kenerly’s reading lends appropriate weight to this non-fiction modern classic. Expanding a great deal on the first edition this feels like a whole new book. Maybe not as succinct as the original but still excellent clear prose, every line considered and every chapter leaving images which stick in the mind.
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