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Yellow Cab

Autor Robert Leonard
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2006
In 2001, anthropology professor Robert Leonard began moonlighting as a cabdriver; Yellow Cab is a portrait of the city he found as he drove the streets of nighttime Albuquerque, picking up everyone from business people and drunken college kids to hookers and drug dealers. In this mixed bag of rich vignettes and interludes of poetry, Leonard offers sharp insights into the workings of the hidden world of an American city after dark.

With an ethnographer's eye for fine details and a writer's ear for words, Robert Leonard's portraits of Albuquerque's cabdrivers and their passengers ring every bit as true as the writings of Joseph Mitchell and Joseph Liebling about varieties of life in New York City. Thoughtful, compelling, and irresistibly authentic.--Keith H. Basso, Regents Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico

Highly entertaining . . . Hop aboard a bright yellow Crown Vic and buckle up for a nighttime journey seen through the eyes of a cabbie. You will be the 'fly on the window' as you witness the comical, bizarre, touching, and sometimes painful antics of human nature.--Mike Trujillo, Yellow Cab driver
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ISBN-13: 9780826337856
ISBN-10: 0826337856
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: University of New Mexico Press

Notă biografică

A former professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico, Robert Leonard lives with his wife and children in rural Iowa where he is a partner in an anthropological consulting firm. On occasion, he wanders back to Albuquerque and climbs into a Yellow Cab.

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In 2001, anthropology professor Robert Leonard began moonlighting as a cabdriver. This is a portrait of the city he found as he drove the streets of night time Albuquerque, picking up everyone from business people and drunken college kids to hookers and drug dealers. It is a mixed bag of vignettes and interludes of poetry.