Grand Central Winter
- ISBN-10
- 0671036548
- ISBN-13
- 9780671036546
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 247
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999-11-01
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Lee Stringer
Description
The essayist presents scenes from his twelve years of homelessness, reflecting on the humanity that still exists in society's outcasts
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- 2000-07
- 250 pages
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