Songs from the Alley

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Hirsch writes a startling account of life on the streets. Wendy and Amanda both came from the suburbs, both had dreams of lasting love and security. But befoer age 30, both women were homeless.

Hirsch writes a startling account of life on the streets. Wendy and Amanda both came from the suburbs, both had dreams of lasting love and security. But befoer age 30, both women were homeless.

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Overview

Hirsch writes a startling account of life on the streets. Wendy and Amanda both came from the suburbs, both had dreams of lasting love and security. But befoer age 30, both women were homeless.

Hirsch writes a startling account of life on the streets. Wendy and Amanda both came from the suburbs, both had dreams of lasting love and security. But befoer age 30, both women were homeless.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
In her first book, Hirsch, a Boston-based freelance journalist, palpably places readers among her city's homeless people. The author spent three years working at the Pine Street Inn, Boston's oldest and largest shelter, helping to supply human beings with moral support as well as food and other basics. The stories of young women like Wendy, Amanda and their fellow homeless make a stronger impact than statistics or disinterested reportage can. While focusing on the present situation of the dispossessed, Hirsch also includes an absorbing history of social conditions from colonial times through today. This is a book that deserves to be widely read--and it should have been edited to correct awkward usages like ``larger than him,'' etc. (Apr.)
Library Journal
Both in their mid-thirties, Amanda and Wendy were raised in lower-middle-class suburban Boston. When the author met them in 1985, they were residents in Boston shelters. In this groundbreaking study, every cliche the reader might have held about the homeless is powerfully destroyed. These women had homes and families; they chose their state because it offered them comfort and companionship they could not find elsewhere. ``Not having a home can be a positive experience,'' says Amanda, knowing that people from the outside probably won't understand. Applying the narrative techniques and imagery of the fiction writer to portray not only these two women but those who have attempted to care for them, Hirsch gives perhaps the best insights we will ever have on homelessness. A required purchase for all urban libraries.-- Rochelle Ratner, formerly Poetry Editor, ``Soho Weekly News,'' New York
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  • ISBN-13: 9780374525446
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Publication date: 8/15/1998
  • Edition description: REPRINT
  • Pages: 448
  • Product dimensions: 5.51 (w) x 8.25 (h) x 1.13 (d)

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