Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country
by Finnegan, William
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- Condition
- very good, good
- ISBN 10
- 0679448705
- ISBN 13
- 9780679448709
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About This Item
New York: Random House, c1998. First Edition. very good, good. 25 cm, 421, references, index, review slip and black and white author's photo laid in. The author is a staff writer for the New Yorker Magazine. He examines the changing class structure of teenagers, focusing on the decaying New Haven, CT; a Texas city that has been introduced to crack; white supremacist teenagers in Los Angeles; and a Mexican-American community in Washington state.
Synopsis
William Finnegan has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1987. He is the author of A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique; Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters; and Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid, which was named one of the ten best nonfiction books of 1986 by The New York Times Book Review. He was a National Magazine Award finalist in both 1990 and 1995. He lives in New York City with his wife. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37975
- Title
- Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country
- Author
- Finnegan, William
- Book Condition
- Used - very good, good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679448705
- ISBN 13
- 9780679448709
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- c1998
- Keywords
- Teenagers, African-Americans, Antelope Valley, Cocaine, Drug Abuse, Latinos, New Haven, CT, Poverty, Racism
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