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Publishers Weekly Review

With consistent authority, Price explores the gritty underside of a New Jersey housing project in this four-week PW bestseller. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

"Strike" is his name, and he's a clocker--a crack dealer. Strike runs his own kingdom in urban New Jersey. When a seemingly ordinary, drug-related murder occurs on Strike's turf, veteran detective Rocco Klein, who's gone pretty much blas{{‚}}e about his job, finds rejuvenation by attempting to prove that the confessed murderer--Strike's own brother--is innocent, and the guilty one is none other than Strike himself. By a widely acclaimed novelist and screenwriter (who's already sold the screen rights to this book for big bucks and has Martin Scorsese set to direct it), Price's latest novel is weighty in both senses of the word: poundage and effectiveness. So what's the point of all these so many pages? Two points. One, it's an incredible course in urban street life, particularly the crack culture, based on Price's own extensive research--years of hanging out with both cops and druggies. And, two, it gives witness to the timeless art of weaving a compelling narrative, no matter how raw the raw material. Many readers may proclaim this Price's best novel yet. (Reviewed Mar. 1, 1992)0395537614Brad Hooper

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Author and screenwriter Richard Price was born in the Bronx, New York on October 12, 1949. He received a BS degree from Cornell University, an MFA from Columbia University, and a Mirillees Fellowship in fiction at Stanford University. His first novel, The Wanderers, was published in 1974 and was adapted into a film by director Philip Kaufman in 1979. His novel Clockers was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was made into a movie by Spike Lee in 1994.

His screenwriting credits include The Color of Money (1986), Sea of Love (1989), Mad Dog and Glory (1992), and Ransom (1996). Price won several awards for his writing on the television series The Wire. He has written for numerous publications including The New York Times, Esquire Magazine, the Village Voice, and Rolling Stone. In 1999, he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.

In 2015, Price published his bestselling novel, The Whites, under the pseudonym Harry Brandt.

(Bowker Author Biography)