Sleeping with the Mayor: A True Story

by John Jiler

Book Overview

Sleeping with the Mayor is a riveting tale of power and powerlessness, race, class and individual personalities presented as vividly as in a novel. In the shadow of City Hall, but with no one to guide... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886913145
• ISBN13: 9781886913141
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Ruminator Books
• Length: 361 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Jiler writes like Tom Wolfe, my highest compliment.

This is the new Tom Wolfe novel I've been waiting for since "Bonfire of the Vanities," even though it's not a novel and Tom Wolfe didn't write it. This vivid recounting of battles waged by a group of New York's homeless is a hilarious page-turner, not what you would expect. Author John Jiler, a freelance writer for the Village Voice, writes first-hand about events he lived, and fills the book with deeply known, extraordinary characters, in Quixotic combat with New York Mayor Ed Koch. The unwelcome residents of "Kochville," a park across the street from City Hall, come together for an overnight vigil in pouring rain, and stay together week after week to create a community for themselves and each other which none of them even dreamed possible. Great reading!