Clockers - Softcover

Price, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0060934980 ISBN 13: 9780060934989

Publisher: Perennial, 2001

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Award-winning author Richard Price offers a viscerally affecting and accomplished portrait of inner-city America.

Veteran homicide detective Rocco Klein's passion for the job gave way long ago. His beat is a rough New Jersey neighborhood where the drug murders blur together ... until the day Victor Dunham -- a twenty-year-old with a steady job and a clean record -- confesses to a shooting outside a fast-food joint. It doesn't take long for Rocco's attention to turn to Victor's brother, a street-corner crack dealer named Strike who seems a more likely suspect for the crime. At once an intense mystery, and a revealing study of two men on opposite sides of an unwinnable war, Clockers is a stunningly well-rendered chronicle of modern life on the streets.

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Review:

'Big, shocking, powerful ... resounds with vivid detail' -- Independent on Sunday

'One hell of a book .. Price shows he's got the best equipment a novelist can have' -- Washington Post Book World

'Page after page explodes with a prose as vivid as kinetic art' -- Chicago Tribune

'Powerful, harrowing, remarkable' -- New York Times Book Review

'The most heralded work of fiction to come out of New York since Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities' -- Time Out

About the Author:

Richard Price spent four years with dealers and cops on the streets of urban America researching the raw material for Clockers. His first novel, The Wanderers, was a literary sensation when it was published in 1974. Three other novels followed - Bloodbrothers, Ladies' Man, and The Breaks, but more recently Price has become one of Hollywood's most successful screenwriters. The Color of Money - for which he received an Oscar Nomination - and Sea of Love are two of his credits. Clockers was directed by Spike Lee and starred Harvey Keitel and John Turturro.

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