Richard Price

• Jun-1975
• / Action Adventure
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The “extraordinary” novel of a teenage gang in the 1960s Bronx, by the New York Times�"bestselling author of Clockers and The Whites (Newsweek).   The basis for the feature film, The Wanderers tells the story of teenagers on the streets of ...

• Feb-1983
• / General Fiction
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From the Bestselling Author of Lush Life

Peter Keller, first college grad from a working-class Yonkers family, thought he was on the road to success. Until no law school wanted him. As he watches his friends advance into promising careers, h...

• Nov-1985
• / Action Adventure
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A “vigorous, tough” novel that “dramatizes so well the awful power of family,” by the New York Times�"bestselling author of The Whites and Clockers (The Atlantic Monthly). Eighteen-year-old Stony De Coco has to make a choice: either join his...

• May-1990
• / Literary
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Winner of the Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship from the Caribbean Studies Association

Winner of the J.I. Staley Prize for Excellence in Anthropology from the School of American Research

Winner of the Albert J. B...

• Jun-1992
• / Suspense
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The New York Times�"bestselling author’s “harrowing” novel about a cop and a crack dealer -- the basis for the acclaimed Spike Lee film (The New York Times).   Rocco Klein, a veteran homicide detective in a New Jersey city just outside Ma...

• Oct-1997
• / Mystery
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Noted writers on art, culture, and the tropical Americas, Richard and Sally Price have crafted a mystery at the intersections of art and anthropology. Drawing readers into their quest for a solution, they build an unusual partnership between text and...

• May-1998
• / Suspense
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Dazed and bleeding, Brenda Martin stumbles into a city hospital and tells an astonishing story: first about the black man who hijacked her car. Then about her young son, who was asleep in the back seat. As the nation watches spellbound, frantic polic...

• Nov-1998
• / Suspense
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The life of Medard Aribot of Martinique óartist, convict, madman, legend óspans much of the twentieth century. Born in 1901 when slavery was a living memory, Medard was allegedly sent to a French penal colony for carving a bust of a colonial offici...

• Jul-1999
• / Action Adventure
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Kenny Becker just dumped his girlfriend--the reasons are a little complex. Young and newly unemployed, his main assets at the moment are six-pack abs and a healthy libido--he's ready to get out, find a little action, and maybe find himself too. But N...

• Jan-2003
• / Suspense
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Ray Mitchell, a former TV writer who has left Hollywood under a cloud, returns to urban Dempsy, New Jersey, hoping to make a difference in the lives of his struggling neighbors. Instead, his very public and emotionally suspect generosity gets him bea...

• Mar-2008
• / Literary
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So, what do you do?" Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter . . . But now he's thirty-five years old and he's still living on the Lower East Side, still in the restaurant business, still serving...

• Nov-2024
• / Literary
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In this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of Clockers and a writer on The Wire, gives us razor-sharp anatomy of an ever-changing Harlem.East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble, panc...