Subways Are for Sleeping

Long on crust, short on cash ... here are true stories of people who live like kings on nothing a year. Twilight People Martha Grant wore no clothes in order to avoid eviction from her hotel room ... Sam Victor had six wives because he was too generous to limit himself to one ... George Spoker amassed a fortune from a bench in Madison Square Park ... Charlie Knutsen had no fixed address. He lived in other people's vacant apartments. There are real people. They have no regular jobs, no normal homes. They live by their wits in the concrete jungle of New York City and they succeed at schemes that no one else would dare to try. "Mr. Love brings compassionate humor, and rare knowledge to his unusual book. The overworked description off-beat takes on new meaning here." —Saturday Review