num_pages: 593
description: Award-winning author Richard Price offers a viscerally affecting and accomplished portrait of inner-city America. Veteran homicide detective Rocco Klein's passion for the job gave way long ago. His beat is a rough New Jersey neighborhood where the drug murders blur together ... until the day Victor Dunham -- a twenty-year-old with a steady job and a clean record -- confesses to a shooting outside a fast-food joint. It doesn't take long for Rocco's attention to turn to Victor's brother, a street-corner crack dealer named Strike who seems a more likely suspect for the crime. At once an intense mystery, and a revealing study of two men on opposite sides of an unwinnable war, Clockers is a stunningly well-rendered chronicle of modern life on the streets.
language: English
title: Clockers
titlecomplete: Clockers
characters: Rocco Klein, Ronald "Strike" Dunham, Rodney Little, Errol Barnes, Larry Mazilli
genres: Fiction, American, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Crime
ratings_count: 9186
places: New Jersey
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: HarperPB