9781501748783-1501748785-The Man in the Dog Park: Coming Up Close to Homelessness

The Man in the Dog Park: Coming Up Close to Homelessness

ISBN-13: 9781501748783
ISBN-10: 1501748785
Author: Cathy A. Small
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Format: Hardcover 200 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781501748783
ISBN-10: 1501748785
Author: Cathy A. Small
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Format: Hardcover 200 pages

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The Man in the Dog Park: Coming Up Close to Homelessness (ISBN-13: 9781501748783 and ISBN-10: 1501748785), written by authors Cathy A. Small, was published by Cornell University Press in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Man in the Dog Park: Coming Up Close to Homelessness (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.49.

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The Man in the Dog Park offers the reader a rare window into homeless life. Spurred by a personal relationship with a homeless man who became her co-author, Cathy A. Small takes a compelling look at what it means and what it takes to be homeless. Interviews and encounters with dozens of homeless people lead us into a world that most have never seen. We travel as an intimate observer into the places that many homeless frequent, including a community shelter, a day labor agency, a panhandling corner, a pawn shop, and a HUD housing office.

Through these personal stories, we witness the obstacles that homeless people face, and the ingenuity it takes to negotiate life without a home. The Man in the Dog Park points to the ways that our own cultural assumptions and blind spots are complicit in US homelessness and contribute to the degree of suffering that homeless people face. At the same time, Small, Kordosky and Moore show us how our own sense of connection and compassion can bring us into touch with the actions that will lessen homelessness and bring greater humanity to the experience of those who remain homeless.

The raw emotion of The Man in the Dog Park will forever change your appreciation for, and understanding of, a life so many deal with outside of the limelight of contemporary society.

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