Synopsis
Richard Price's gripping, gritty tale of the battle of nerves between the police and the drug dealers across the river from Manhattan in the slums of New Jersey.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2001-07-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 608 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 16.0 oz |
Publisher's Note
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.
Industry Reviews
"...A remarkable novel--'The Bonfire of the Vanities', as rewritten by Nelson Algren....It is a book of considerable bravery which refuses to declare the imagination out of bounds."
Scott Turow
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