cover image Songs from the Alley

Songs from the Alley

Kathleen Hirsch. Anchor Books, $10.95 (418pp) ISBN 978-0-385-41277-3

A Boston-based, freelance journalist here takes a hard look at some of her city's homeless people. ``While focusing on the present situation of the dispossessed, Hirsch also includes an absorbing history of social conditions from colonial times through today,'' stated PW. (May)