Clockers (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

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PRICE, Richard. Clockers. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015. Octavo. Full deep brown leather. Spine with five raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt lettering and design to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 593 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. Richard Price (b. 1949) grew up in the Bronx, studied at Cornell and Columbia, and published his first novel, The Wanderers , in 1974 at the age of twenty-four. He has worked simultaneously as a novelist and screenwriter throughout his career — his scripts include The Color of Money (1986, Academy Award nomination), Sea of Love (1989), and Ransom (1996) — and his decade as a writer on The Wire , HBO's serial drama about drug trafficking and policing in Baltimore, brought his particular skills to the largest possible audience. He won the Edgar Award for Best TV Writing in 2007. The connection between The Wire and Clockers is not coincidental: the novel is widely credited as a major influence on the architecture of the series, and David Simon has acknowledged the debt explicitly. Clockers was published in 1992 and remains Price's most substantial and most celebrated novel. It is set in a fictional New Jersey housing project called Dempsy — directly across the river from Manhattan and a w

• Binding: Hardcover

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