Nightshift NYC

Name: Nightshift NYC
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ISBN: 9780520252714

ISBN-10: 0520252713

ISBN-13: 9780520252714

Edition: 2008

Authors: Russell Leigh Sharman, Cheryl Harris Sharman, Corey Hayes

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New York is the city that never sleeps. This luminous book peels back the cover of darkness over the city as it hums along in the night, revealing a hidden world populated by the thousands of women and men who work and live the nightshift. Written with beauty and grace,Nightshift NYCweaves together cultural critique, vivid reportage, and arresting photographs to trace the inverted logic of the city at night. Russell Leigh Sharman and Cheryl Harris Sharman spent a year interviewing and shadowing fry cooks and coffee jockeys, train conductors, cab hacks, and dozens of others who keep the city running when the sun goes down. Investigating familiar places such diners and delis, they explore…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/10/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 270
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



PROLOGUE: Nightfall



One Big Family



I'll Take My Chances on the Nightshift



Our Own Little City



A Stillness



Stay Awake



You Have to Give Up Something



Fulfilling My Dreams



I Don't Know Where Is the Keys



All Night on the Street



Call It a Night



I Just Work Here



Everyone Is the Same DownThere



The Real Hard Core



I'm Here All Night



Night Boat Weekends



Night Fishing



Different Fish, Different Places



Here Is Not My Home


Epilogue: Daybreak