Watching
John Fergus Ryan · 1997
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About the book
Watching begins as a matter-of-fact descriptive account of the sleaze palaces around Times Square, and gathers force page by page, building to a torrent of redemptive poetry - from bleak materials! Meet the retired pickle-jar lid makers, the "remnant folders," the pensioners, wage-slaves and sex-slaves who live in the efficiency apartments of Hell's Kitchen. Billy "the Gimp," a stoic pensioner who lives for the peep shows in Times Square, "those sticky-footed temples of enlightenment," describes life in the raw, as it surrounds him, in all its comic horror. Like the graffiti of ruined Pompeii, Billy's tale is the record of a civilization - ours! Watching is one of those rare inventions of which we can say without hesitation, "Every word is true."
Book details
- Year
- 1997
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Hastings House
- Editions
- 2
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN
- 9780803893986
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