- Fiction, Runaway teenagers, Drug traffic, Mothers and sons
Someone is painting bodies on Philadelphia's Broad Streetone more boldly drawn chalk outline every time another life is lost to the violence of the drug wars. A sixteen-year-old dealer; a priest; a nine-year-old girl.
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Grave, earnest, contemporary and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Steve Lopez
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non-Classics), Bookcassette, Viking
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781561005956
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