Grand Central Winter, Expanded Second Edition
- Author Lee Stringer
- Narrator Kevin Kenerly
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Run Time 7 hours
- Format Audio
- Genre Anthologies: general, Biography: writers, Housing and homelessness, Memoirs, Poverty and precarity.
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What to expect
In the underground tunnels below Grand Central Terminal, Lee Stringer—homeless and drug-addicted for eleven years—found a pencil to run through his crack pipe. One day he used it to write. Soon writing became a habit that won out over drugs, and before long Stringer had created one of the most powerful urban memoirs of our time.
With humane wisdom and a biting wit, Stringer chronicles the unraveling of his seemingly secure existence as a marketing executive and his odyssey of survival on the streets of New York. Whether he is portraying "God's corner," as he calls 42nd Street, or his friend Suzi, a hooker and "past-due tourist" whose infant he sometimes babysits, whether he recounts taking shelter underneath Grand Central by night and collecting cans by day or making a living hawking Street News on the subway, Lee Stringer conveys the vitality and complexity of a down-and-out life.
Rich with small acts of kindness, humor, and even heroism amid violence and desperation, Grand Central Winter offers a touching portrait of our shared humanity.
Critics Review
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“Stringer knows full well that freedom begins between the
Colum McCann, National Book Award winner
ears. It is the discovery of this freedom that liberates the heart.” -
“Stringer gives us the long view of New York’s underbelly,
New York Times Book Review
born of pain but delivered with style and heart.” -
“[Lee Stringer’s] writing is edgy and pointed and sometimes
New York Times
startlingly funny.” -
“Grand Central Winter
Chicago Tribune
is, in fact, a subversive work. Its characters and stories fly in the face of
the most hallowed stereotypes that American society holds about homeless and
near-homeless people.” -
“Grand Central Winter
Salon
contains surprisingly entertaining vignettes, as the author is blessed with a
light touch as well as empathy for his fellow down and out. You can imagine his
characters—hookers and junkies and people who’ve fallen just off the edge—in a
lyrical, neo-realist Disney film about New York.” -
“While such vivid observations would be impressive for any
Time Out New York
writer, they seem nearly miraculous when you consider that they were drafted
while the author was living on the street under the duress of drug addiction.”
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