- Fiction, Gangs, Teenage boys, Fiction, men's adventure
"The urban war song of a teen-age gang, who live in a Bronx housing project in the pre-Beatle days of the early 1960s"--book jacket.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Richard Price
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 239
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury, Avon Books, Houghton Mifflin
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780395977743
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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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