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Пит Хэмилл - автор 9 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Why Sinatra Matters, Forever, Drinking Life. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
Book DescriptionAs products of the same urban landscape, Pete Hamill and Frank Sinatra have both been credited with giving the American city a voice. In this widely acclaimed and bestselling appreciation-now available in paperback for the first
Rugged prose and a rare attention to telling detail have long distinguished Pete Hamill's unique brand of journalism and his universally well received fiction. Twenty years after his last drink, he examines the years he spent as a full-time member of the drinking culture. The result is A Drinking Life, a stirring and exhilarating memoir float is his most personal writing to date. The eldest s...
This widely acclaimed bestseller is the magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York in 1740 and remains ... forever. Through the eyes of Cormac O'Connor - granted immortality as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan - we watch New York grow from a tiny settlement on the tip of an untamed wilderness to the thriving metropolis of today. And through Cormac's...
The Vietnam War has left a deep and lasting impression in American life, from its impact on the men and women who fought in it, to the journalists and photographers who covered it, to the millions of Americans who protested against it or supported it. Thanks to an uncensored press, the world knew and saw more of this war than any in history before or since. The Associated Press made an unprecedent...
20 years after his last drink Pete Hamill looks back on his early life. As a child during the depression and World War II he learnt that drinking was to be an essential part of being a man, it was only later he discovered its ability to destroy lives.
A Tale of One City It was the best of times, it was the best of times; it was a season of pinstripes, it was a season of amazin'; it was the autumn of Sinatra, it was the autumn of Baha Men; it was a time of the 7 train, it was a time of the 4 and the D. In short, the period was so like other glorious times that it inspired chanting in the streets, division in the taverns, and a giddy nost...
In Downtown, Pete Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the island's southern tip to Times Square, combining a moving memoir of his days and nights in New York with a passionate history of its most enduring places and people.
Пит Хэмилл (1935-2020), журналист "Нью-Йорк Пост", сын бедных эмигрантов из североирландского Белфаста, написал яркую историю о мужестве, семье и борьбе простого человека во времена Великой депрессии.
Этой книге суждено стать классикой, и она представляет собой путешествие в мир, полный чудес. Одиннадцатилетний ирландский подросток и пожилой еврейский раввин, бежавший из Праги, встречаются в послевоенном Бруклине. Магия их отношений пронзительна и захватывающе трогательна, несмотря на то, что жизнь и того и другого находится под угрозой.
