{"product_id":"hope-against-hope-book-susan-kelly-9780373261185","title":"Hope Against Hope","description":"When writer and feature filmmaker Peter Josyph spent a year and a half combing the historic streets and debris-blasted buildings of Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, talking with workers and residents, capturing its struggles and transformations, he became what he calls a citizen-artist, personally shooting over two hundred hours of footage for his film Liberty Street: Alive at Ground Zero, and writing this haunting, eyewitness account of the extraordinary world that was created on September 11 and has vanished now forever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the Ground Zero neighborhood was misinformed and marginalized by city and federal agencies, it was left to its own devices in coping with round-the-clock deconstruction, toxic infestation, corrupt landlords, reluctant insurers, and simple access to the place they were proud--and cursed--to call their home. But loyal Downtowners who ran for their lives from the collapse of the Twin Towers returned with a resolve to restore their world to order. Exploring this dust-driven world of collateral damage, Josyph documented their struggle at a time when there were few there to witness it, and bans against photography made him a spy in the house of destruction. In what the New York Times called a personal, impressionistic, almost poetic account, Josyph finds in each detail a new way to envision that terrible morning, and he challenges the more simplistic, mainstream views of Ground Zero with vivid portraits of brave, exceptional--and complex--New Yorkers who made a place for themselves in that tragic and transitory neighborhood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis expanded edition includes a new chapter and additional photographs.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49884463104273,"sku":"CIN0373261187G","price":7.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53511187005713,"sku":"CIN0373261187A","price":7.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0373261187.jpg?v=1751357329","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/hope-against-hope-book-susan-kelly-9780373261185","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}