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Pete Hamill
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born
June 24, 1935
in Brooklyn, The United States
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Forever: A Novel
   3.84 avg rating — 4,130 ratings
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2002
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13 editions
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Snow in August
3.81 avg rating — 2,009 ratings
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1998
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16 editions
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North River
3.73 avg rating — 1,662 ratings
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2007
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18 editions
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A Drinking Life: A Memoir
3.78 avg rating — 879 ratings
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published
1994
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7 editions
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Tabloid City: A Novel
 3.38 avg rating — 520 ratings
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2011
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9 editions
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Downtown: My Manhattan
3.85 avg rating — 398 ratings
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2004
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Why Sinatra Matters
3.84 avg rating — 163 ratings
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1998
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6 editions
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The Gift: A Novel
3.31 avg rating — 157 ratings
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1973
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The Guns of Heaven (Hard Case Crime #24)
3.30 avg rating — 82 ratings
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1983
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Piecework: Writings on Men & Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Calamities and How the Weather Was
by Pete Hamill, Bill Phillips 4.02 avg rating — 42 ratings
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1996
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4 editions
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“There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.”
― Pete Hamill
― Pete Hamill
“I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.”
― Pete Hamill
― Pete Hamill
“"The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes. It doesn't matter if you are younger or old. Reading our rich history makes the experience more layered, but it is not a substitute for walking the streets themselves. For old-timer or newcomer, it is essential to absorb the city as it is now in order to shape your own nostalgias.
That's why I always urge the newcomer to surrender to the city's magic. Forget the irritations and the occasional rudeness; they bother New Yorkers too. Instead, go down to the North River and the benches that run along the west side of Battery Park City. Watch the tides or the blocks of ice in winter; they have existed since the time when the island was empty of man. Gaze at the boats. Look across the water at the Statue of Liberty or Ellis Island, the place to which so many of the New York tribe came in order to truly live. Learn the tale of our tribe, because it's your tribe too, no matter where you were born. Listen to its music and its legends. Gaze at its ruins and monuments. Walk its sidewalks and run fingers upon the stone and bricks and steel of our right-angled streets. Breathe the air of the river breeze."”
― Pete Hamill, Downtown: My Manhattan
That's why I always urge the newcomer to surrender to the city's magic. Forget the irritations and the occasional rudeness; they bother New Yorkers too. Instead, go down to the North River and the benches that run along the west side of Battery Park City. Watch the tides or the blocks of ice in winter; they have existed since the time when the island was empty of man. Gaze at the boats. Look across the water at the Statue of Liberty or Ellis Island, the place to which so many of the New York tribe came in order to truly live. Learn the tale of our tribe, because it's your tribe too, no matter where you were born. Listen to its music and its legends. Gaze at its ruins and monuments. Walk its sidewalks and run fingers upon the stone and bricks and steel of our right-angled streets. Breathe the air of the river breeze."”
― Pete Hamill, Downtown: My Manhattan
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