Review: Clockers
Avis de journaliste - Kirkus ReviewsPrice (The Breaks, 1982, etc.) has spent the past ten years writing for Hollywood (Sea of Love, etc.)--but you wouldn't know it from the dense textures and supple dramatics of this epic slice of urban grit about frazzled drug-dealers and burnt-out cops. Of the many impeccably authentic urban types here, Price focuses on two: 20-ish ""Strike"" Dunham, black chief of a crew of crack-dealers (""clockers"") in the dead-end burg of Dempsy, N.J., and 43-year-old white Dempsy homicide cop Rocco Klein. Each is suffering an identity crisis when a murder puts them on a collision course. Strike, in a constant panic from dealing with his homicidal boss, crack-kingpin Rodney Little, is considering changing jobs; Rocco, six months from retirement, is thinking that his life is a big zero--a nullity underlined by his humiliating antics to curry the favor of a film star who might portray him in a movie. Then someone guns down another of Little's henchmen, and--shocking both Strike and Rocco--Strike's solid-citizen older brother, Victor, confesses to the killing: ""self-defense,"" he claims. Not so, thinks Rocco, who decides that Victor is covering for Strike and starts harassing the young dealer by framing him as a stoolie--certain death at Little's hands. Meanwhile, myriad subplots vivify Strike's and Rocco's worlds: Rocco initiates the film star into the horrors of jail-life; Strike apprentices a young boy into dealing; Rocco's baby girl disappears; Little's legendary hit man wastes away from AIDS; Strike nearly dies from a bleeding ulcer. Finally, Strike, with a vengeful Little literally steps behind, turns to Rocco for help--a move that allows both to find a kind of hope and renewal. A vital and bold novel rich in unexpected pleasure, with Price generally avoiding melodrama, sentimentality, and stereotype to portray a harsh world with cleareyed compassion.
Review: Clockers
Avis d'utilisateur - Mark - GoodreadsI haven't seen Spike Lee's film based on this book. If I do, I'll do my best to forget I read the book -- even though Richard Price wrote the screenplay -- the better to judge the film on its own ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Clockers
Avis d'utilisateur - Monica - GoodreadsAn utterly gripping read, at first you can't put it down, the writer is a master of dialogue. My interest only slowed down towards the last third of the book (it's a pretty hefty read at over 500 ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Clockers
Avis d'utilisateur - Chris - GoodreadsThe gap of understanding between the police and the titular clockers is the focus of this book. Without ever being heavy handed, Price shows circumstances make it impossible for these groups to ever ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Clockers
Avis d'utilisateur - Patrice Hoffman - GoodreadsThis is the first Richard Price novel I've read. I've never seen The Wire, nor have I watched the Spike Lee adaptation of this book. Many of the reviews I've read are by people who watched The Wire ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Clockers
Avis d'utilisateur - GoodreadsFun and fast
Review: Clockers
Avis d'utilisateur - Tim - GoodreadsRichard Price's "Clockers" is an example of too much of an often very good thing. Price had me from the start in this story focusing on a homicide detective and a 19-year-old crack dealer. In a couple ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Clockers
Avis d'utilisateur - Jeannie Walker - GoodreadsClockers is a heavy and intense story. On one hand you have Rocco Klein, a veteran homicide detective, and on the other hand, you have Strike Dunham, a crack dealer, with his own crew as well as a ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Clockers
Avis d'utilisateur - John - GoodreadsHaving loved The Wire, how have I lived nearly two decades since Clockers was written without knowing that Richard Price's story of the American drug war contains all the hallmarks of The Wire that ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Clockers
Avis d'utilisateur - David Nelson - GoodreadsA long book, and in some regards the template for THE WIRE (Price wrote for Season Five, and it shows; you'll see some dialogue that he lifted directly from CLOCKERS for his episodes); well worth the ... Consulter l'avis complet
