Clockers
by Price, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0395537614
- ISBN 13
- 9780395537619
- Seller
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Castle Rock, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. 1st Edition, 1st Printing.. Hardback. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Some shelfwear. Dust jacket has some wear at corners, else fine. Authors fifth novel and the basis for the Spike Lee film in 1995. Received the National Book Critics Circle Award for 1992.
Synopsis
Clockers is a 1992 novel by American author Richard Price. In 1995 director Spike Lee adapted it into the film Clockers; Price co-wrote its screenplay with Lee. The book takes place in the fictitious project of Dempsey in North Jersey. It centers around the workings of a local drug gang and the dynamics between the drug dealers, the police and the community. The film is set in Brooklyn, New York.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Century Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5047
- Title
- Clockers
- Author
- Price, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition, 1st Printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395537614
- ISBN 13
- 9780395537619
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Books into Film
Terms of Sale
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Century Books
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Castle Rock, Colorado
About Century Books
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...