The Night Line
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (633 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 094153345X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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crummy review comment Ishmael Zarkov While the Publisher's review comments about Clancy's writing are indeed accurate and worthy, the reviewer doesn't know diddly about photography. There is nothing 'snapshot' about them; he just doesn't underatand the syntax and methods of 35mm street photography and documentation. E
Peter M. Day after day. Donahoe, who took the pictures that appear in the book–of which twenty-five have been chosen for permanent exhibition of the Museum of the City of New York–was also a professional driver, working out of the same garage as his fellow author. Mr. And from then on it's a scramble to deal with the geography and the traffic. All those hours you could be on the street earning your living, or being mugged. If you're healthy and you're lucky.Ambrose Clancy, who wrote the text of The Night Line, is a novelist and was a professional taxi driver. When you get a cab it needs cleaning, but you don't do the needful at the garage. The shape-up at the taxi garage in mid-afternoon: you get a cab two, three, or four hours after you've clocked
Ambrose Clancy lives in Forest Hills Gardens, New York. Peter M. Donahoe lives in Stuyvesant Falls, New York
This chronicle of one such night, penned by novelist and cabby Clancy, follows him past the weirdos and junkies, pimps and hookers he fears to pick up, and the no less risky fares he actually accepts. They present the city's often ugly nocturnal face and the unsmiling, careworn taxi drivers who confront it every night--but their snapshot quality lacks the power of Clancy's hardened prose. This is indeed the belly of the beast, as seen by two who braved the nighttime streets. It's a dark and dangerous world, and a tough place to make a buck. Clancy does not offer a pretty