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Drama City
by Pelecanos, George P
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0316608211
- ISBN 13
- 9780316608213
- Seller
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St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Advance Reading Copy of the second stand alone novel by this author. SIGNED on the title page by the author at the 2008 Baltimore Bouchercon Festival. There is one stamp from the book distributor on the outside edge of the book. In near fine unread condition.
Synopsis
Lorenzo Brown loves his work. In his job as an officer for the Humane Society, he cruises the city streets, looking for dogs that are being mistreated - underfed, unclean, trained to kill. He takes pride in making their lives better. And that pride helps Lorenzo resist the pull of easier money doing the kind of work that got him a recent prison bid. Rachel Lopez loves her work, too. By day she is a parole officer, helping people - Lorenzo Brown among them - along a path to responsibility and advancement. At night she heads for the city's hotel bars, where she can always find a man who will let her act out her damage. She loses herself in sex and drink and more. But Rachel's nights are taking a toll on her days. Lorenzo knows the signs. The trouble is, he truly needs her right now. There's an eruption coming in the streets he left behind, the kind of territorial war that takes down everyone even near it. Lorenzo needs every shred of support he can get to keep from being sucked back into that battleground. He reaches out to Rachel - but she may be too far gone to help either of them. Writing with the grace and force that have earned him praise as "the poet laureate of the crime world," George Pelecanos has created a novel about two scarred and fallible people who must navigate one of life's most brutal passages. It is an unforgettable, moving, even shocking story that will leave no reader unchanged.
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Details
- Seller
- Scene of the Crime Books, ABAC, IOBA
(CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- biblio3280
- Title
- Drama City
- Author
- Pelecanos, George P
- Format/Binding
- Tradepaper
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Advance Reading Copy
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0316608211
- ISBN 13
- 9780316608213
- Publisher
- Little Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2005
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed; Thriller; Mystery;
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About the Seller
Scene of the Crime Books, ABAC, IOBA
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St. Catharines, Ontario
About Scene of the Crime Books, ABAC, IOBA
My wife and I have been operating Scene of the Crime Books since 1996. In 2004 we attempted to go against the market and open a storefront on Oakville Ontario. In August 2006 we closed the brick and mortar and humbly went back to just internet. We now do internet and appointment only through our home. So if you're in our neighborhood let us know 24 hours ahead of time. Thank you. Don Longmuir
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