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Cold New World: Growing Up in Harder Country (Modern Library Paperbacks)
New Yorker writer William Finnegan spent time with families in four communities across America and became an intimate observer of the lives he reveals in these beautifully rendered portraits: a fifteen-year-old drug dealer in blighted New Haven, Connecticut; a sleepy Texas town transformed by crack; Mexican American teenagers in Washington State, unable to relate to their ...more
Paperback, 448 pages
Published
September 29th 2010
by Modern Library
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Fantastic. A sensitive, patient, observant book about the effect of urban poverty on US families in the 1990s, seen through four families in four cities. Exhaustively reported, carefully written, and beautifully argued. Finnegan knows how much of himself and his own biases to allow into the work--enough to buck false objectivity, but not so much as to prevent the people who's writing about from speaking for themselves. Ultimately it's an indictment of Finnegan's own generation, who as he says (q...more
This book would be great if it was just reportage on downward mobility in America, but Finnegan's sharp analysis (which I tend to find lacking or superficial in most journalistic writing) really makes this book exceptional.
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I'm reading this with my students. I've assigned it to my "Adolescence" course.
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Great portrait of poverty in New Haven, CT.
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