Alphabet City

E-137: University of California Press. Very Good. 1992. Hardcover. Trade PB. 8vo. Oblong. Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. 1992. Unpaginated (124 pgs). Illustrated. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "My Moms was a good person. She cared, but she just couldn't hack us no more. She kept saying she gonna kill herself, too. The day she died, she told me that my father hit her, and I told her, That was good for you, for not cooking for him. And she left. I didn't know she took the pills, though. The next day, they told me she was dead." —Pistol This searing portrait of inner-city life takes us inside one of America's deadly urban battlefronts—the Puerto Rican neighborhood of Alphabet City on New York's Lower East Side. With unnerving clarity, Geoffrey Biddle shows us the people who live there, summoning their spirit against the brutalizing conditions of poverty, joblessness, drugs, crime, and violence. Capturing life in this ghetto on film and in words with rawness and compassion, he shows the human toll of impoverishment and neglect. EB; 9.9 X 6.4 X 0.5 inches .