On Both Sides of the Tracks Cultural Communication love and despair and desire

love and despair and desire

From the ruins of Berlin to the birth of Israel

but one drunken night is all it takes to change everything

an instructor’s manual

For runners and readers of Outcasts United and Running for My Life

On Both Sides of the Tracks Cultural Communication love and despair and desireAn analysis of social mobility in contemporary French literature that offers a new perspective on figures who move between social classes. Social climbers have often been the core characters of novels. Their position between traditional tiers in society makes them a touchstone for any political and literary moment, including our own. Morgane Cadieus study looks at a certain kind of contemporary social climber in French literature whom she calls the