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Title: Waiting for Nothing and Other Writings by Tom Kromer ISBN: 0-8203-0798-X Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Kromer nails it.
Comment: Kromer's account of homelessness is so accurate and insightful that the reader is thrown into the despairing life of the narrator with nothing to hold onto. The mysterious and faceless narrator serves as the most useful tool in conveying the hopeless existance of the "hobo." Written using the slang true to his featured characters, Kromer has painted a truly acurate and at times disturbing portrait of life as a railriding begger. Take time to read his biographical information and decide for yourself if this novel is indeed fiction or not. I could say so much more, having studied and re-read the book for years, but space is limited.
Rating: 5
Summary: This book makes you feel cold and hungry--it should.
Comment: Kromer's writing is impressive, in that it fully exposes the atmosphere of a "stiff" struggling to eat, sleep, not get caught and whisked away to jail. The vignettes of Waiting for Nothing are absorbing and keep you feeling cold and waiting for nothing with him. I highly recommend this book as a supplement to the history of the depression. It truly makes it more real.
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Title: Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel ISBN: 1565843428 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 30 November, 2004 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century by Harry Braverman ISBN: 0853459401 Publisher: Monthly Review Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics) by Langston Hughes ISBN: 067972818X Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Ragged Dick Or, Street Life in New York With the Boot-Blacks by Horatio, Jr. Alger ISBN: 0451524802 Publisher: Signet Classics Pub. Date: 01 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato ISBN: 0451525752 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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