Owning up : new fiction /
Pelecanos, George P.,
Owning up : new fiction / George Pelecanos. - First edition. - 229 pages ; 25 cm
The amusement machine -- The no-knock -- Knickerbocker -- Owning up.
"Four blistering novellas, drawn together by themes of strife, violence, and humanity, from esteemed crime fiction writers, George Pelecanos"-- "When the Carusos' son is involved in a holdup, the family home comes under siege in the form of a no-knock warrant. Months after the cops destroyed their home, the Carusos struggle to return to normal. Elsewhere, two former inmates reunite by chance on the set of a TV production. Both have found their way on the straight and narrow path--that is, until one sees the potential for an easy grift. A teenage boy must step into the man he'd like to be as a hostage crisis grips his hometown. A woman adrift meets a man tied to her grandmother's past, an encounter that awakens her to a bloody history that undergirds the place she grew up. Pelecanos' portraits are characterized by shades of grey, resisting the mold of heroes and villains, victims and perpetrators, good and evil. At once streetwise and full of heart, Owning Up grapples with random chance, the bind of consequence, and the forked paths a life can take"--Dust jacket flap.
0316570478 9780316570473
Little Brown & Co, 53 State st 9th Fl, Boston, MA, USA, 02109, (617)2270730 SAN 200-2205
2023941624
Criminals--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Short stories, American.
Novellas.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Owning up : new fiction / George Pelecanos. - First edition. - 229 pages ; 25 cm
The amusement machine -- The no-knock -- Knickerbocker -- Owning up.
"Four blistering novellas, drawn together by themes of strife, violence, and humanity, from esteemed crime fiction writers, George Pelecanos"-- "When the Carusos' son is involved in a holdup, the family home comes under siege in the form of a no-knock warrant. Months after the cops destroyed their home, the Carusos struggle to return to normal. Elsewhere, two former inmates reunite by chance on the set of a TV production. Both have found their way on the straight and narrow path--that is, until one sees the potential for an easy grift. A teenage boy must step into the man he'd like to be as a hostage crisis grips his hometown. A woman adrift meets a man tied to her grandmother's past, an encounter that awakens her to a bloody history that undergirds the place she grew up. Pelecanos' portraits are characterized by shades of grey, resisting the mold of heroes and villains, victims and perpetrators, good and evil. At once streetwise and full of heart, Owning Up grapples with random chance, the bind of consequence, and the forked paths a life can take"--Dust jacket flap.
0316570478 9780316570473
Little Brown & Co, 53 State st 9th Fl, Boston, MA, USA, 02109, (617)2270730 SAN 200-2205
2023941624
Criminals--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Short stories, American.
Novellas.
Thrillers (Fiction)