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Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street (Expanded Second Edition) (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
Grand Central Winter Stories from the Street - Expanded Second Edition - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Lee Stringer, Kevin Kenerly (Narrator) [Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut] -- 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. — In the underground tunnels below Grand Central Terminal, Lee Stringer -- homeless and drug-addicted for eleven years -- found a pencil to run through his ... more »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.
Unabridged - 6 CDs - 7 hours - read by Kevin Kenerly« less