Clockers
by Price, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Publisher's black cloth over black boards. Fine in fine dust jacket
- Seller
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HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth over black boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Inscribed by Price. "For John with thanks for your enthusiasm. Best wishes Richard Price"
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
- The Old Mill Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 302909
- Title
- Clockers
- Author
- Price, Richard
- Format/Binding
- 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Publisher's black cloth over black boards. Fine in fine dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- American
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About The Old Mill Bookshop
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