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A white woman, her hands gashed and bloody, stumbles into an inner-city emergency room and announces that she has just been carjacked by a black man. But then comes the horrifying twist: Her young son was asleep in the back seat, and he has now disappeared into the night.
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Grave, contemporary, classical in form and earnest.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Richard Price
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 560
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury, Dell Publishing, Broadway Books
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780747542087
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Richard Price (born October 12, 1949) is an American novelist and screenwriter, known for the books *The Wanderers* (1974), *Clockers* (1992) and *Lush Life* (2008).
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