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Published to coincide with the release of Martin Scorsese's film, Gangs of New York, starring Leonard DiCaprio, The Gangs of New York has long been hand-passed among its cult readership. It is a tour through a now unrecognizable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled, as Luc Sante has written, from legend, memory, police records, the self-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and solid historical research. Asbury presents the definitive work on this subject, an illumination of the gangs of old New York that ultimately gave rise to the modern Mafia and its depiction in films like The Godfather.
"Asbury comes off as positively multicultural when you compare him with hispeers and immediate predecessors . . ." -- Judith Shulevitz, The New York Times Book Review
"Bursts with exuberance for its criminal subject matter. A riproaring read ... Asbury's lurid prose gives [the book] mythic stature."-- Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, The Financial Times Limited, January 18, 2003
"Gangs is one of the essential works of the city, as deserving of apermanent place on the shelf . . ." -- Luc Sante, The New York Review
"The rhetoric of the times, slang and colorful nicknames provide a poetic pleasure that helps offset the horrors . . ."-- Robert Flanagan, The Dispatch
| 出版社 | Basic Books |
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| 作者 | Herbert Asbury |