Authors: Richard Price
ISBN-13: 9781616794699, ISBN-10: 1616794690
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Date Published: March 2009
Edition: Bargain
The self-described "Fonzie of Literature," Richard Price has come a long way from his days growing up in the Bronx projects. From his gritty 1974 debut, The Wanderers, to hit Hollywood screenplays like The Color of Money and Clockers, Price brings a signature brand of street-savvy cool to his work.
From a great American realistthe author of Clockers and co-writer of The Wirea riveting story of two urban worlds in collision
Raymond Chandler is peeping out from Price's skull, as well he should be, given such gloomy doings…one detects Saul Bellow's vision, too. Price is a builder, a drafter of vast blueprints, and though the Masonic keystone of his novel is a box-shaped N.Y.P.D. office, he stacks whole slabs of city on top of it and excavates colossal spaces beneath it. He doesn't just present a slice of life, he piles life high and deep. Time too.