Name: An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago (en Inglés)
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Author: Alex Kotlowitz
ISBN: 9780804170918

portada An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Anchor

Autor

Alex Kotlowitz

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

320

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780804170918

Categorías

Las políticas del gobierno central

An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago (en Inglés)

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From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of the impact of violence on Chicago's most vulnerable neighborhoods.The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000 wounded by gunfire. What does that do to the spirit of individuals and community? Drawing on his decades of experience, Alex Kotlowitz set out to chronicle one summer in the city, writing about individuals who have emerged from the violence and whose stories capture the capacity--and the breaking point--of the human heart and soul. The result is a spellbinding collection of deeply intimate profiles that upend what we think we know about gun violence in America. Among others, we meet a man who as a teenager killed a rival gang member and twenty years later is still trying to come to terms with what he's done; a devoted school social worker struggling with her favorite student, who refuses to give evidence in the shooting death of his best friend; the witness to a wrongful police shooting who can't shake what he has seen; and an aging former gang leader who builds a place of refuge for himself and his friends. Applying close up, empathic reporting, Kotlowitz offers a piercingly honest portrait of a city in turmoil. These sketches of those left standing will get into your bones.