Floating city : hustlers, strivers, dealers, call girls and other lives in illicit New York / Sudhir Venkatesh.

By:

Venkatesh, Sudhir

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Penguin Books Limited, 2013Description: 287 pages ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780241002759 (hbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

330.97471 VEN 23 009190

LOC classification:

HD2346.U52 N5585 2013

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Table of contents

Contents:

When worlds collide -- New York, New York -- The shifting ground beneath your feet -- Moving on up -- Sex is a passport -- Adventures in role-playing -- Boundary issues -- Exit strategies.

Summary: Based on Venkatesh's interviews with New York City prostitutes and socialites, immigrants and academics, high end drug bosses and street-level dealers, "Floating City" exposes the underground as the city's true engine of social transformation and economic prosperity--revealing a wholly unprecedented vision of New York. A remarkable memoir of sociological investigation.

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Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	330.97471 VEN 009190 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		009190

Includes index.

When worlds collide -- New York, New York -- The shifting ground beneath your feet -- Moving on up -- Sex is a passport -- Adventures in role-playing -- Boundary issues -- Exit strategies.

Based on Venkatesh's interviews with New York City prostitutes and socialites, immigrants and academics, high end drug bosses and street-level dealers, "Floating City" exposes the underground as the city's true engine of social transformation and economic prosperity--revealing a wholly unprecedented vision of New York. A remarkable memoir of sociological investigation.

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