David Simon

Homicide (eBook, ePUB)

A Year On The Killing Streets

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'A masterpiece' Martin Amis

'A hard-nosed classic' GQ

'Brilliant' Financial Times

'True genius' Sunday Times

The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed or bludgeoned to death. At the centre of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide unit, a small brotherhood of hard men who fight for whatever justice is possible in a deadly world.

'A staggering work that is almost impossible to put down . . . a gripping depiction of America's culture of violence . . . A raw, revelatory and utterly real account of life and death in Baltimore.' (five stars) Metro

'This brilliant book . . . is desolate, sharp, poetic and passionate . . . Simon alternates between black humour and moments of bleakness, and the restlessness of the violence that lies underneath it all.' Financial Times

'A masterpiece . . . Simon has exceptional literary gifts of eye and ear. Few novelists have written so well about the corrosiveness of the modern American city.' Martin Amis

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847673909
• Artikelnr.: 39496676

Autorenporträt

David Simon is an author, journalist, producer and script writer and is best known as the creator of HBO's Peabody Award-winning series The Wire. His first book, the international bestseller Homicide, won the Edgar Award and the Anthony Award and became the basis for the NBC award-winning drama. His second book, The Corner: A Year in the Life of An Inner-City Neighbourhood, co-authored with Edward Burns, was made into an Emmy-winning HBO miniseries. Simon also co-created the HBO series Generation Kill with Ed Burns, and Treme with Eric Overmyer. He lives in Baltimore.

Rezensionen

A masterpiece . . . Simon has exceptional literary gifts of eye and ear. Few novelists have written so well about the corrosiveness of the modern American city MARTIN AMIS