Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts

Charlie LeDuff is that rare breed of news reporter?one who can cover hard-to-get-at stories in a unique and deeply personal style. In "Work and Other Sins," he gives his incomparable take on New York City and its denizens?the bars, the workingmen, the gamblers, the eccentrics, the lonesome, and the wise. Whether writing about a racetrack gambler, a firefighter with a broken heart, or a pair of bickering brothers and their Coney Island bar, LeDuff takes the reader into the lives of his subjects to explore their fears, faults, and fantasies as well as their own small niches of the globe. The result is an at turns riotous, dirt-under-the-nails, contemplative, salty, joyous, whiskey-tinged, and utterly unique vision of life in the Big Apple.