Synopsis "Homeless: A day in the Life: A Homeless Veteran's Tale"
Do you want to know what its like to be homeless in America?"Homeless: A Day In The Life" is a harrowing tale of what one homeless veteran goes through in a single day. It's an engrossing account of his begging, searching through the garbage for his food and anything he can sell, confronting the police, trying to get into a shelter, and staying away from the "bum bashing" violent gangs. He drinks secondhand coffee, smokes cigarette butts, begs with a cardboard sign, and sleeps out in the open. You've seen him a thousand times, on street corners, sidewalks and stoplights, asking you to help him. He's a nameless beggar in a West Coast city, living a life beyond imagination. The homeless are the poorest people in America today, and this book will show you how they live, whether you have compassion or contempt for them. Homelessness is brutal, and this book pulls no punches as it brings you into the lives of the American destitute. Homeless: A Day In The Life will change the way you see homeless people, beggars and bums forever, and help you understand the real and deeply dystopian world they live in. Written by a former homeless writer, this compelling page-turner brings the painful realities of homelessness to life, laying them open for anyone to see. "Someone who's warm can't understand someone who's cold."- Alexander Solzhenitsyn __________________________ Review from Boston's "Spare Change" newspaper: "... totally engrossing ..." "This book really brought back the old times of my being homeless." __________________________ Review from Chicago's "StreetWise" magazine: " ...it's harder than one might think to survive on spare change and leftovers; perhaps homelessness means more than simply not having a home to return to at the end of the day." __________________________ Review from Washington D.C.'s "Street Sense" newspaper: " ... a compelling read, a memoir of a man whose memory never stayed too long in the minds of those who passed him by. " "(The) ... protagonist is not bitter. He carries a macabre humor through the pages. It would be all too easy to write a morose, somber story about being homeless. But Murphy's dark sense of humor and clever aloofness carry our friend ... through his time on the streets." __________________________ Review from San Francisco's "StreetSheet" newspaper: " For anyone who has ever wondered what it's like to live on the street, Homeless: A Day in the Life is a glimpse into a world we try so hard to ignore." "... Murphy's book is not an easy read in the emotional sense, but it offers an eye-opening snapshot into the resilience and brutality of human nature."
