New Yorkers
- Author Craig Taylor
- Narrator various
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Run Time 14 hours and 7 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Collected biographies, True stories: general, Urban communities.
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What to expect
Terror
Blackout
Hurricane
Recession
Pandemic
A symphony of contemporary New York told through the magnificent words of its people - from the best-selling author of Londoners.
In the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, social injustice, and pandemic. New Yorkers weaves the voices of some of the city's best talkers into an indelible portrait of New York in our time - and a powerful hymn to the vitality and resilience of its people.
Vibrant and bursting with life, New Yorkers explores the nonstop hustle to make it; the pressures on new immigrants, people of colour, and the poor. It captures the strength of an irrepressible city that - no matter what it goes through - dares call itself the greatest in the world.
Drawn from millions of words, hundreds of interviews, and six years in the making, New Yorkers is a grand portrait of an irrepressible city and a hymn to the vitality and resilience of its people.
(P)2021 Recorded Books
Critics Review
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Beautifully woven
Sunday Times -
One of Craig Taylor’s many skills as an interviewer lies in his eye for the vivid detail that captures a larger abstraction … Remarkable
Mail on Sunday -
Extraordinary city stories … ambitious and entertaining … [Taylor] does a fine job of telling the New York story
Guardian -
As gorgeous, cacophonous and shocking as New York itself. Like those great oral historians Studs Terkel and Ronald Blythe, Craig Taylor has the gift of drawing out the most idiosyncratic confidences, creating a magical, uproarious and sometimes terrifying portrait of life in the ultimate city – Olivia Laing, author of The Lonely City
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A symphonic choir of voices rising from the five boroughs … the city is hopping, punching, reeling, dancing, thrumming, honking, thriving … Taylor is as skilled a writer of literary nonfiction as I have ever read
The TLS -
An incredible achievement. Insightful, funny, surprising, profound, moving and honest. This could be the great American novel – and it isn’t even a novel – Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine
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