Research Catalog
Up all night
- Title
- Up all night / Martha Gies.
- Author
- Gies, Martha, 1944-
- Publication
- Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2004.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HM1033 .G55 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- 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."--Jacket
- Subject
- Contents
- What of the Night? -- Sativa Dancing Nude -- Perpetual Adoration at St. Agatha -- Ships in the Night -- Rising Star -- Night Bus -- The Chase -- Night Beat -- Sirens -- The Legendary Judie Brown -- Getting through the Night -- The Mission at Night -- Georgia's Blues in the Night -- Lullaby -- Obdulia at the Rose Garden -- While the Weary World Is Sleeping -- Street Sweeper -- From Press to Porch -- Tech Support -- All-Night Poolroom -- Truck Stop -- On the Door at Montage -- In Perfect Silence -- Star Party -- Awake at the Zoo -- Mr. Thomas at the Embassy Suites Hotel -- Nightly Bread -- Flowers for the City.
- ISBN
- 0870710281
- 9780870710285
- LCCN
- 2003022314
- OCLC
- ocm53231833
- 53231833
- SCSB-8806305
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library