TY - BOOK AU - Cadillac Man. TI - Land of the lost souls: my life on the streets SN - 1596914068 AV - HV 4506.N6 .C114 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Bloomsbury KW - Homeless persons KW - New York (State) KW - New York N2 - ultimately, Cadillac's story is their story."www.shelfari.com"; A moving, funny, and unforgettable memoir of homeless life in New York For the past sixteen years, Cadillac Man has lived on the streets of New York City. Over those years, he has recorded the facts of his daily life, writing hundreds of thousands of words in a series of spiral-bound notebooks. Cadillac Man: My Life on the Streets distills those journals into a memoir of homeless life, full of indelible characters and packed with gripping stories. In a gritty, poignant, and funny voice, Cadillac narrates his descent into homelessness, the struggles and unexpected freedoms of his life, and the story of his love affair with a young runaway, whom he eventually (and tragically) reunites with her family. The United States has seven hundred thousand homeless people ER -