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In this first-rate police procedural, Eric Cash, the 34-year-old bartendeer at Café Berkmann and a would-be screenwriter, ends up in jail as a murder suspect and it's up to two New York City police detectives to find out the truth.

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Main Author: Price, Richard, 1949-
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language:English
Published: Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2008.
Series:Thorndike Press large print core
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Police > Fiction.
Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > New York.
Large print books.
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Summary:In this first-rate police procedural, Eric Cash, the 34-year-old bartendeer at Café Berkmann and a would-be screenwriter, ends up in jail as a murder suspect and it's up to two New York City police detectives to find out the truth.
Physical Description:705 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
ISBN:9781410407399 (alk. paper)
141040739X (alk. paper)
Author Notes:Author and screenwriter Richard Price was born in the Bronx, New York on October 12, 1949. He received a BS degree from Cornell University, an MFA from Columbia University, and a Mirillees Fellowship in fiction at Stanford University. His first novel, The Wanderers, was published in 1974 and was adapted into a film by director Philip Kaufman in 1979. His novel Clockers was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was made into a movie by Spike Lee in 1994.

His screenwriting credits include The Color of Money (1986), Sea of Love (1989), Mad Dog and Glory (1992), and Ransom (1996). Price won several awards for his writing on the television series The Wire. He has written for numerous publications including The New York Times, Esquire Magazine, the Village Voice, and Rolling Stone. In 1999, he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.

In 2015, Price published his bestselling novel, The Whites, under the pseudonym Harry Brandt.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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