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Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city Cover Image Book Book

Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city / Matthew Desmond.

Desmond, Matthew, (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 024126085X
  • ISBN: 9780241260852
  • ISBN: 9780553447446
  • ISBN: 0553447440
  • ISBN: 0553447459
  • ISBN: 9780553447453
  • ISBN: 0553447432 (hardback)
  • ISBN: 9780553447439 (hardback)
  • ISBN: 0553447459 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 9780553447453 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 0553447432 (hardback)
  • ISBN: 9780553447439 (hardback)
  • ISBN: 9780553447439 : HRD
  • ISBN: 0553447432 : HRD
  • ISBN: 9780553447453
  • ISBN: 0553447459
  • Physical Description: xviii, 422 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : B\D\W\Y, Broadway Books, [2017]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes Reader's guide.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-405) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: Cold city -- Part One. Rent. The business of owning the city ; Making rent ; Hot water ; A beautiful collection ; Thirteenth Street ; Rat hole ; The sick ; Christmas in Room 400 -- Part Two. Out. Order some carryout ; Hypes for hire ; The 'hood is good ; Disposable ties ; E-24 ; High tolerance ; A nuisance ; Ashes on snow -- Part Three. After. This is America ; Lobster on food stamps ; Little ; Nobody wants the North Side ; Bigheaded boy ; If they give Momma the punishment ; The Serenity Club ; Can't win for losing -- Epilogue: Home and hope -- About this project.
Summary, etc.:
"In this powerful work of narrative nonfiction, Desmond documents the months he spent living alongside tenants and landlords in Milwaukee, exploring the issues of poverty and homelessness in a segregated city. Taking readers on a journey into the daily lives of families facing eviction, sometimes repeatedly, the author creates a compelling and heartbreaking work that leaves readers wondering how we got here and what we can do to help."-- http://lj.libraryjournal.com
"In Evicted, Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads ... Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America's most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible."-- Cover.
Awards Note:
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner, 2017.
Pulitzer Prize winner, General Nonfiction, 2017.
New York Times Best Sellers List.
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, 2017
The Pulitzer Prize, 2017

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Subject: Low-income housing > United States.
Eviction > United States.
Poverty > United States.
Profit > United States.
Cities and towns > United States.
United States.
Social science > Sociology > Urban.
Social science > Poverty and Homelessness.
Profit > United States.
Eviction > United States.
Poverty > United States.

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  • 63 of 65 copies available at Bibliomation.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Rockville Public Library. (Show)

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Rockville Public Library 339.4609 DES (Text) 34035138902701 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Ansonia Public Library 339.4 DES (Text) 34045136849622 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Beardsley & Memorial Library - Winsted 339.460 DESMOND (Text) 33750000062032 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Beekley Community Library - New Hartford 339.4 DESMOND, M. (Text) 32544072441941 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Bethel Public Library 339.4 DESMOND (Text) 34030133682416 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Black Rock Branch - Bridgeport 339.4 DESMOND (Text) 34000076496389 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Brookfield Library 339.4609/DESMOND (Text) 34029134287019 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport 339.4 DESMOND (Text) 34000081324287 Adult Nonfiction Available -
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown 339.4 DES (Text) 34014133719691 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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