Mean Streets: Confessions of a Nighttime Taxi Driver

by Peter McSherry

Short-listed for the 2003 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction

A world exists on the nighttime streets that the average person cannot envision. Taxi driver Peter McSherry recounts tales of his thirty years of experience driving cabs at night on the hard-bitten streets of Canada's largest city. Drunks, punks, con artists, hookers, pimps, drug addicts, drug pushers, thugs, nymphomaniacs, snakes, politicians, celebrities . . . he's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550024027
• ISBN13: 9781550024029
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

He was my cab driver

Two nights ago, coming home late from a party in Toronto, I flagged a cab and hopped in. The cab driver and I got to talking and discovered we were both novelists, he somewhat more ahead of the game. He was enthusiastic about his work, as a successful writer must be, and introduced himself as Peter McSherry. Being a fellow writer, I of course had to purchase a copy he just happened to have with him and have been reading it since. Worth its weight in cab fare -Andrew Byer (If you read this Peter McSherry, I was the inebrated ethusiastic guy with his girl you took to Sherbourne on August 15th 2005. Told you I would not regret buying a copy.)

Good Stuff

A street smart book that educated me and amused me. Good Stuff. This guy knows a lot and can write