Research Catalog

Title

Up all night / Martha Gies.

Author

Gies, Martha, 1944-

Publication

Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2004.

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Description

184 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"In Up All Night a baker, a nude dancer, a flower market wholesaler, a longshoreman, a newspaper distributor, a shelter worker, a zookeeper, and sixteen other night workers candidly share personal histories. Their stories about night work - and about their lives during the daylight hours - are often funny, often poignant. Some work at night by choice - to earn higher wages or to avoid bosses. For others, such as recent immigrants or parents with day-working spouses, their only option may be the midnight shift." "Author and night owl Martha Gies guides readers on a nocturnal tour of unique workplaces - the waiting ambulances that encircle the darkened city, the maze of conveyor belts at the industrial bakery, the internet service provider's help desk. She visits and vividly describes the cold, gritty, and isolated settings of night work - the truck cab, the silhouetted cubicle, the empty street."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Night > Social aspects
• Night people > United States
• Night work > United States

Contents

Sativa Dancing Nude -- Perpetual Adoration at St. Agatha -- Ships in the Night -- Rising Star -- Night Bus -- Night Beat -- Sirens -- The Legendary Judie Brown -- The Mission at Night -- Georgla's Blues in the Night -- Lullaby -- Obdulia at the Rose Garden -- Street Sweeper -- From Press to Porch -- Tech Support -- All-Night Poolroom -- Truck Stop -- On the Door at Montage -- Star Party -- Awake at the Zoo -- Mr. Thomas at the Embassy Suites Hotel -- Nightly Bread -- Flowers for the City.

ISBN

0870710281 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2003022314

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries