The World According to Breslin

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Journalism/Autobiography In The World According To Breslin: • A subway vigilante galvanizes the nation # A cop who once posed nude loses her job • A governor quits and robs Breslin of his favorité punching bag • A homeless New Yorker moves to a traffic island • The People Breslin Isn't Talking To Jimmy Breslin is a no-nonsense observer of politics and people, a witty, outraged, philosophical, and well-reasoned champion of the little guy. In this rich and varied collection of his syndicated columns he reveals the many, and often contradictory, sides of his world. The familiar, walk-on characters are here: Klein the Lawyer, Marvin the Tbrch, and Un Occhio (mythical boss of bosses), but Breslin's greatest invention is his own public persona: a cigarchomping, hard-drinking character designed to make everyone think he is an ordinary guy. What he is, is a shrewd newspaperman and a superb and painstaking reporter who seems to write his columns as easily as he pops peanuts in a bar. "A... Tovább

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Journalism/Autobiography In The World According To Breslin: • A subway vigilante galvanizes the nation # A cop who once posed nude loses her job • A governor quits and robs Breslin of his favorité punching bag • A homeless New Yorker moves to a traffic island • The People Breslin Isn't Talking To Jimmy Breslin is a no-nonsense observer of politics and people, a witty, outraged, philosophical, and well-reasoned champion of the little guy. In this rich and varied collection of his syndicated columns he reveals the many, and often contradictory, sides of his world. The familiar, walk-on characters are here: Klein the Lawyer, Marvin the Tbrch, and Un Occhio (mythical boss of bosses), but Breslin's greatest invention is his own public persona: a cigarchomping, hard-drinking character designed to make everyone think he is an ordinary guy. What he is, is a shrewd newspaperman and a superb and painstaking reporter who seems to write his columns as easily as he pops peanuts in a bar. "A provocative and entertaining writer who catches the color of the city with flashes of poetry and imagery." - The New YorK Times "Breslin's world is a banquet." -Fort Worth Star-Telegram "Terrific journalism.. .nuggets of lean eloquence." - Kirkjus Jimmy Breslin, author of Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?r The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, and How The Good Guys Firially Wonr lives in New York City. Vissza