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The Turnaround George Pelecanos

The Turnaround By George Pelecanos

The Turnaround by George Pelecanos


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Summary

A brilliant novel from one of America's finest literary crime writers...

The Turnaround Summary

The Turnaround: From Co-Creator of Hit HBO Show 'We Own This City' by George Pelecanos

A brilliant novel from one of America's finest literary crime writers...

On a hot summer afternoon in Washington DC 1972, three white teenagers, stoned and fearless, drive a stolen car into a rough, black neighbourhood. Taunting local black kids through the car window, they speed off to what they think is safety.

They find themselves trapped in a dead-end street whilst an angry mob gathers. In the ensuing chaos, two of the white boys manage to escape, but Billy - the third friend - is shot dead.

Thirty-five years later, one of these men reaches out to another, opening a door that could lead to salvation. However, another survivor of that day is now out of prison, and is looking for reparation in any form he can find it . . .

The Turnaround Reviews

Pelecanos maps the social landscape of DC with a compassionate complexity, scouring the badlands of the city and the psyche for the causes of criminality and the bonds that bind communities. * GUARDIAN *
A stunning, gripping read -- Simon Shaw * MAIL ON SUNDAY *
Pelecanos is in the top rank of American crime scribes, and this is him at his very best. * SUNDAY MERCURY *
A fine novel with rich dialogue and characters. * HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER *

About George Pelecanos

George Pelecanos was born in Washington, D.C. in 1957. He worked as a line cook, dishwasher, bartender, and woman's shoe salesman before publishing his first novel in 1992. Pelecanos is the author of twenty books set in and around Washington, D.C.: A Firing Offense, Nick's Trip, Shoedog, Down By the River Where the Dead Men Go, The Big Blowdown, King Suckerman, The Sweet Forever, Shame the Devil, Right as Rain, Hell to Pay, Soul Circus, Hard Revolution, Drama City, The Night Gardener, The Turnaround, The Way Home, The Cut, What It Was, The Double, and The Martini Shot. He has been the recipient of the Raymond Chandler award in Italy, the Falcon award in Japan, and the Grand Prix Du Roman Noir in France. Hell to Pay and Soul Circus were awarded the 2003 and 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. The Turnaround won the Hammett Prize for literary excellence in the field of crime writing. His fiction has appeared in Playboy, Esquire, and the collections Unusual Suspects, Best American Mystery Stories of 1997, Measures of Poison, Best American Mystery Stories of 2002, Men From Boys, and Murder at the Foul Line. He served as editor on the collections D.C. Noir and D.C. Noir 2: The Classics, as well as The Best Mystery Stories of 2008. He is an award-winning essayist who has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, GQ, Sight and Sound, Uncut, Mojo, and numerous other publications. Esquire magazine called him the poet laureate of the D.C. crime world. In Entertainment Weekly, Stephen King wrote that Pelecanos is perhaps the greatest living American crime writer. Pelecanos would like to point out that Mr. King used the word perhaps. Pelecanos was a producer, writer, and story editor for the acclaimed HBO dramatic series, The Wire, winner of the Peabody Award, the AFI Award, and the Edgar. He was nominated for an Emmy for his writing on that show. He was a writer and co-producer on the World War II miniseries The Pacific, produced by Steven Spielberg, and most recently worked as a writer and Executive Producer on the HBO series Treme. Pelecanos lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. He is at work on his next novel.

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GOR001369491
9780753826607
0753826607
The Turnaround: From Co-Creator of Hit HBO Show 'We Own This City' by George Pelecanos
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Orion Publishing Co
20090702
304
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