Cold New World: Growing Up in Harder Country

Jacket Description/Flap: New Yorker writer William Finnegan spent time with families in four communities across America and became an intimate observer of the lives he reveals in these beautifully rendered portraits: a fifteen-year-old drug dealer in blighted New Haven, Connecticut; a sleepy Texas town transformed by crack; Mexican American teenagers in Washington State, unable to relate to their immigrant parents and trying to find an identity in gangs; jobless young white supremacists in a downwardly mobile L. A. suburb. Important, powerful, and compassionate, Cold New World gives us an unforgettable look into a present that presages our future. A New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction of 1998 selectionOne of the Voice Literary Supplement's Twenty-five Favorite Books of 1998Biographical Note: William Finnegan has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1987. He is the author of A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique; Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters; and Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid, which was named one of the ten best nonfiction books of 1986 by The New York Times Book Review. He was a National Magazine Award finalist in both 1990 and 1995. He lives in New York City with his wife. "From the Hardcover edition."Review Quotes: "A gripping narrative . . . Finnegan's real achievement is to attach identities to the steady stream of faceless statistics that tell us America's social problems are more serious than we want to believe."--The Washington Post "For years, Bill Finnegan, a masterful reporter, has immersed himself in the world of the young and the lost. The reports he brings from four corners of the country, four desperate corners, will tell you more about the drug problem and more about what ails America than any other book I know of. Cold New World is chilling and dark, but it also vibrates with life."--David Remnick Review Citations:

Ingram Advance 06/01/1999 pg. 109 (EAN 9780375753824, Paperback)

New York Times 07/18/1999 pg. 28 (EAN 9780375753824, Paperback)

New York Times 12/05/1999 pg. 104 (EAN 9780375753824, Paperback)

Kirkus Reviews 04/01/1998 pg. 463 (EAN 9780679448709, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Publishers Weekly 04/13/1998 pg. 63 (EAN 9780679448709, Hardcover)

Booklist 05/15/1998 pg. 1570 (EAN 9780679448709, Hardcover)

Library Journal 06/01/1998 pg. 137 (EAN 9780679448709, Hardcover)

New York Times 06/14/1998 pg. 9 (EAN 9780679448709, Hardcover)

NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1999 pg. 76 (EAN 9780679448709, Hardcover)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1999 pg. 9 (EAN 9780679448709, Hardcover)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1999 pg. 23 (EAN 9780679448709, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Finnegan, William William Finnegan is a staff writer at "The New Yorker" and the author of "Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid" and "A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique", both published by California.