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Der große Harlem-Roman von Krimipreisträger Richard Price

East Harlem, 2008. Ohne Vorwarnung stürzt ein fünfstöckiges Mietshaus ein, das ganze Viertel versinkt im Chaos. Die Rauchwolke steht dicht über dem Berg aus Schutt, als Rettungsdienste und Medien eintreffen. Als eigentlich keiner mehr mit Überlebenden rechnet, wird Anthony Carter aus den Trümmern geborgen, unversehrt, aber nicht mehr derselbe. Richard Price folgt vier unvergesslichen Charakteren durch die Nachwehen einer urbanen Katastrophe. Ein fesselndes Gesellschaftspanorama voller Spannung und...

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 New York is no place for the lonely, and with one meaningless sexual encounter after another, Kenny begins to wonder if the singles scene is not itself a complete con job, with his heart and his future at stake. Raunchy, funny, and surprisingly heartfelt, this 1978 clubland slice-of-life displays Richard Price in gritty good form.

Novelist and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Richard Price's bestselling second novel offers "an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair" (USA Today)

At once an intense mystery and a revealing study of two men, a veteran homicide detective and an innercity crack dealer, on opposite sides of an endless war. Clockers is "powerful . . . harrowing . . . remarkable" (The New York Times Book Review).

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, he jumps from job to job---mail clerk, phone solicitor, stand-up comic---until he breaks down and starts phoning in bomb threats on his own house. He's going to have to work hard to change the pattern of self-sabotage that has defined most of his life. And taking that job at his alma mater as a teacher of freshman comp and starting an affair...