Piecework

Acclaim for Pete Hamill’s PIECEWORK

“Full of the passions, action, opinions, and excesses one would expect from a man moving through all the journalistic hot spots of the last quarter century… The best of the book is flamboyant, fierce, and funny.”

— Philadelphia Inquirer

“Rock-solid… Hamill has a great eye and ear for detail and nuance, and the talent to evoke a real sense of places that no longer exist, especially the New York City of his childhood.”

— Chicago Tribune

“Acute. Candid. Courageous. Eloquent. Humane… Hamill’s best may be the best of the genre.”

— San Antonio Express

“A tour through the most frightening and fascinating decades of our lifetime, by a guide who has been in the front of the bus all the way… Nearly all of Hamill’s ruminations on the dark edges of society are as fresh as tomorrow’s headlines.”

— Virginian-Pilot

“Hamill takes the mundane and the great, spins them through his psyche, and delivers absolute poetry of the streets… Without so much as an adjective or adverb, Hamill puts you where he is, right at the table (or under it), club-crawling with Frank Sinatra, arguing with Mike Tyson, or (verbally) dissecting Madonna.”

— Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“Hamill has been writing for more than thirty years. Yet he retains a passion, a curiosity, a disgust for injustice that keeps his writing fresh and his spirit young. He delivers pieces of the world in thousand-word chunks that sound like truth, well-told; that inform and nourish. That, nothing else, is the standard measure of Piecework.”

— Buffalo News