Work and Other Sins

"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 a reader into the lives of his subjects to explore their fears, faults, and fantasies as well as their own small niches of the globe. In doing so, he has expanded the jurisdiction of the news story from competent reports on political campaigns and budget bills to include the love lives of B-rate gangsters and the moral qualms of unapologetic drunks. He has tackled race, class, sex, death, work, and alcohol as topics, to name a few." "Work and Other Sins is a paean to the real New York - not the candied Big Apple of the movies or the flashy neon metropolis of ad campaigns. Here is a book that proves the guy on the bar stool has just as much to say about life as the stiff in the suit."--Jacket.