Title
The Corner
Delivery time: 8-12 business days (International)
West Baltimore, Fayette And Monroe: The Corner. On This Forgotten Intersection, The American Dream Has Crumbled To A Nightmare. Here, The Full Price Of The Drug Culture Is Being Paidyet, Surprisingly, It Can Also Be A Place Of Hope, Caring, And Love.This Extraordinary Book Tells The Searing True Story Of One Year In The Life Of An Innercity Neighborhood.Written By David Simon, The Awardwinning Author Of Homicide, And Edward Burns, A Former Police Detective, It Follows A Handful Of People Who Must Struggle Mightily Just To Survivelet Alone Escapethe Drug Market That Fuels Their World. At The Center Of The Narrative Is Fifteenyearold Deandre Mccullough. Deandre'S Parents, Gary And Fran, Were Once Poised, Against All Odds, To Pull Themselves Up And Out Of West Baltimore. But When They Themselves Stumble And Then Succumb To The Corner'S Temptations, Deandre'S Future Hangs In The Balance. Smart And Streetwise, He Is Both Drawn To And Wary Of The Drug Trade That Flourishes Beyond His Rowhouse Steps. Can He Rise Above His Parents' Addiction, Or Will He, Too, Become A Casualty Of The Corner?In Telling The Story Of Deandre And His Broken Family, Simon And Burns Open Up The Complex World Of The Corner And Its Unforgettable Characters. It'S A Place Of Predators And Their Prey, Of Slingers And Touts, Of Stickup Boys And Shooting Gallery Nurses, Of Ambivalent Police, Helpless Users, And Innocent Bystanders. But It Is Also, Incredibly, A Place Of Fragile Hope. Fat Curt, An Aging Drug Tout, Remembers The Corner As A Kinder Place, And Tries To Protect His Customers From Weak Or Dangerous Product. R.C., A Troubled Teenager, Finds Refuge From His Chaotic Life Within The Basketball Court'S Magic Boundaries. Ella, A Longtime Resident, Runs The Recreation Center For The Corner'S Children, Shielding Them As Best She Can From What Lies Outside The Playground'S Chainlink Fence. Amid So Much Desperation, Decency Still Flickers, Poignantly, Across The Corner'S Blasted Landscape.More Vividly Than Any Recent Book, The Corner Captures An America Of Which Many Of Us Are Only Dimly Aware. Through The Prism Of Just One Desolate Crossroads, Simon And Burns Offer Chilling Assessments Of Why Law Enforcement Policies, Moral Crusades, And The Welfare System Have Done So Little For Our Inner Cities. Deeply Moving And Unflinchingly Real, The Corner Will Forever Alter Our View Of The Socalled War On Drugs, Even As It Compels Us To Look Deep Into The Hearts And Minds Of All Those Who Live In America'S Abandoned Places.
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