Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts

Charlie LeDuff is that rare breed of news reporter-one who can cover hard-to-get-at stories in a unique and deeply personal style. And in Work and Other Sins, he gives his incomparable take on the city and its denizens-the bars, the workingmen, the gamblers, the eccentrics, the lonesome, and the wise. Whether writing about a racetrack gambler, a firefighter with a broken heart, or a pair of bickering brothers and their Coney Island bar, LeDuff take s the reader into the lives of his subjects to explore their fears, faults, and fantasies as well as their own small niches of the globe. The result is at turns a riotous, dirt-under-the-nails, contemplative, salty, joyous, whiskey-tinged, and utterly unique vision of life in the Big Apple and beyond. Book jacket.