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Book of the Day: Tabloid City by Pete Hamill

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 10:43am

Pete Hamill is a New York novelist, journalist, editor and screenwriter. He is the author of sixteen previous books including novels Forever and Snow in August, and a memoir A Drinking Life. Tabloid City is both a thriller and gripping portrait of today's New York. The murder of a wealthy socialite and her secretary forces the head of one of the city's last tabloids to stop the presses. But behind the headlines, a decadent playground crumbles in a historic metropolis eclipsed by modern times.

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Forever

- Pete Hamill

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This widely acclaimed bestseller is the magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York in 1740 and remains . . . forever.

Through the eyes of Cormac O'Connor -- granted immortality as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan -- we watch New York grow from a tiny settlement on the tip of an untamed wilderness to the thriving metropolis of today. And through Cormac's remarkable adventures in both love and war, we come to know the city's buried secrets -- the way it has been shaped by greed, race, and waves of immigration, by the unleashing of enormous human energies, and, above all, by hope.

A Drinking Life

- Pete Hamill

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This bestselling memoir from a seasoned New York City reporter is "a vivid report of a journey to the edge of self-destruction" (New York Times).
As a child during the Depression and World War II, Pete Hamill learned early that drinking was an essential part of being a man, inseparable from the rituals of celebration, mourning, friendship, romance, and religion. Only later did he discover its ability to destroy any writer's most valuable tools: clarity, consciousness, memory.
In A Drinking Life, Hamill explains how alcohol slowly became a part of his life, and how he ultimately left it behind. Along the way, he summons the mood of an America that is gone forever, with the bittersweet fondness of a lifelong New Yorker.

"Magnificent. A Drinking Life is about growing up and growing old, working and trying to work, within the culture of drink." --Boston Globe