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"Voeten's book captivates readers with its compassionate portraits of the people and their surroundings, while exploring the surprisingly varied reasons why these men and women wound up living just beneath the surface of the reader's world." --"Booklist"

"Voeten is no doubt one of the most adventurous reporters in the Netherlands." "--Vrij Nederland Magazine"

"Voeten s book captivates readers with its compassionate portraits of the people and their surroundings, while exploring the surprisingly varied reasons why these men and women wound up living just beneath the surface of the reader s world." "Booklist""

""Tunnel People" is a social documentary project, in the tradition of Jacob Riis's "How the Other Half Live" and Dorothea Lange's "American Exodus." It exposes us to people in straitened circumstances and advocates for their relief." "Wall Street Journal""

"Voeten resists the temptation to sensationalize and romanticize the underground tunnel people. Nor is his book sentimental . . . [it is a] sober and well-written report about the mean misery underground: That makes this book so powerful." "Volkskrant""

""Tunnel People" is a supreme example of participatory observation. The insider's point of view comes here to full light in a brilliant way. It is not an objective case-study, but a subjective, journalistic reportage, right to the point of an incredible, dynamic, human underworld that is nowhere being sensationalized nor romanticized by Voeten." "Passage""

"Voeten has found yet another frontier in the great American experimentthe one underground, in the tunnels of Manhattanand deliver[s] it to us in an utterly charming and fascinating account, ' says Sebastian Junger." "Publishers Weekly""

Voeten is no doubt one of the most adventurous reporters in the Netherlands. "Vrij Nederland Magazine""

"Teun Voeten has found a way to show us the tunnel people not by their statistical trademarksdrug addiction, alcoholism, crime, and AIDSbut rather through their humanity, their talents, their extraordinary attitudes of good humor and hope." [tk] reviews"

"Dutch photographer and journalist Voeten documents two years of work with the men and women who lived underground in a New York City train tunnel. . . .A vivid and accessible account." "CHOICE""

Describes the author's five-month stint in the underground tunnels beneath New York City, including descriptions of the people living there, the society they created for themselves, and the whereabouts of the original residents.