false <![CDATA[Clockers]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170298592m/45794.jpg 45794 15 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, <i>Clockers</i> is a stunningly well-rendered chronicle of modern life on the streets. 1808654 1993 Clockers total:954|5:297|4:463|3:156|2:32|1:6| 954 3875 1509 189 5 3 false false Mon Sep 24 22:48:48 -0700 2007 Fri Jan 16 00:04:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Wed Sep 10 09:45:13 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 17:48:05 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 09:45:13 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon May 28 11:56:35 -0700 2007 Mon May 28 11:56:35 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 3 false false Fri Jul 27 13:41:45 -0700 2007 Fri Dec 21 16:21:40 -0800 2007
There is a chapter on heroin addicts who live in a condemned building and who take...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 09:06:44 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 08:48:16 -0800 2009 Clockers was a lot like watching The Wire, and that's a good thing. As I said in my comment when I started reading this book, I'm happy I never read this before now, and that I had never seen the movie adaptation, which I'm sure is quite good, but which would have ruined some of the book. ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed May 02 04:36:03 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 04 08:53:45 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 2 false false Wed Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 28 20:49:46 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 12 09:29:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Aug 16 23:13:03 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 16:23:56 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 23:13:03 -0700 2009
Truth is, this book doesn't really get going until AT LEAST page 250 of 600, but if you sti...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 10:29:36 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 10:32:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 10:31:46 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 10:47:21 -0700 2008
To expand upon that, it's a character study that does nothing to dispel the popular image of the homicide detective (a world-weary skeptic, partly corrupt, slightly alcoholic, alternately caring too...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Dec 11 16:56:30 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 17:17:17 -0800 2008 Clockers - the term refers to the low-level, 24-hour drug slingers staked outside the projects - was written in 1992, and takes place before then. Which is why it took me so long to figure out why the characters referred to the cops as "Furies." It's because the police drove Plymouth Furie...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 10:00:51 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 00:26:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 14:38:52 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 10:52:48 -0800 2009
As in The Wire, in Clockers Richard Price explores the front line in the War on Drugs through two infantrymen on opposite sides of the conflict. There's Rocco Klein, homicide investigator, and Strike, lieutenant on the rise in the Dempsey projects. The late-ni...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 10:01:54 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 08:50:02 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988 Sat Mar 14 12:15:45 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 12:15:45 -0700 2009 1
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