Stranger to the System (Life Portraits of a New York City Homeless Community)

by Jim Flynn

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Genres: Nonfiction, Sociology, Biography & Memoir
DDC/MDS: 305.569209227471 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity People by social and economic levels Lower, alienated, excluded classes Poor people
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Stranger to the System (Life Portraits of a New York City Homeless Community)

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