- Trials (Murder), Prisons, Juvenile fiction, Fiction
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
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Grave, contemporary, intimate and spare.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Walter Dean Myers
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 281
- Publisher
- Scholastic, Listening Library, Amistad
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061782893
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“FADE IN: INTERIOR: Early morning in CELL BLOCK D, MANHATTAN DETENTION CENTER.”
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