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...STUDS TERKEL 316 pages. Pantheon...
Working is a drama based on Studs Terkel 1972 book and is currently showing at the Newbury St. Theatre, 565 Boylston St. In Boston, on Thursday through Saturday evenings at 8 til Feb. 5. Tickets are $2.50. Call 628-8333 or 261-8894 for more info...
...find out what it's really like; reporters loiter nervously in bars in Queens waiting for something to be said so they can sneak outside and put it in their notebooks; sociologists write about it from the outside. But except for verbal records like those collected by Studs Terkel, or stuff like Nate Shaw's All God's Dangers, you just can't get no genuine working-class lit in the U.S.A...
...life back into today. The testimony of these men and women is both invaluable and unique--a mountain of statistics and doctoral theses has no more legitimacy and is often far less enlightening than a single Dorothea Lange photograph of an Appalachian mother or a waitress musing into Studs Terkel's tape recorder about the joys of serving tables...
...Working, Terkel...