Tales of Two Cities: Stories of Inequality in a Divided New York

by John Freeman and Bill Cheng

Book Overview

In a city where the top one percent earns more than a half-million dollars per year while 25 thousand children are homeless, public discourse about our entrenched and worsening wealth gap has never been more sorely needed. This remarkable anthology of essays and stories is the literary world's response, with leading lights including Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz and Lydia Davis bearing witness to the experience of ordinary New Yorkers in extraordinarily...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143128302
• ISBN13: 9780143128304
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher