num_pages: 390
description: "Mr. Morgan mocks the limits of language to create an unnerving and uterrly persuasive rendition of hell, one that affirms him as an important new novelist."- The New York Times Book ReviewHomeboy, Seth Morgan's stunning novel, is a gritty, ribald, and frenetically lyrical odyssey through the Strip of San Francisco - a netherworld of whores, pimps, dealers and junkies - to the hell of Coldwater Penitentiary. After a high-priced hooker is killed and one of the world's biggest diamonds is stolen, Joe Speaker, a strip-joint barker and dope addict, stumbles onto the missing jewel, is hunted down and put away for murder. In prison, he finds that his troubles are just beginning."Hail the conquering literary hero!...Homeboy, a big beast of a novel with a beating and evolving human heart at its center...is full of the reality of human suffering."- Los Angeles Times Book Review"Seth Morgan makes the ugly streets of San Francisco's Tenderloin...into mythical characters and places, much larger than life and highly colored."- Washington Post Book World
language: English
title: Homeboy
titlecomplete: Homeboy
characters: Oblivia DeHavilland, Rings 'n' Things, Bermuda Schwartze, Pete the Packrat, Tarzon, Laurence 'Larry' Daykin, Justice Bell, Baby Jewels Moses, Sidney Dreaks, Holy Hubert, Poppa Whoppa, Gloria Monday, Sugarfoot, Joe Speaker, Rooski, Patrolman Daniels, Candy, Bobby "Quick" Cicero, Maurice, Rigoletto, Claude Sweeny DDS, Kitty Litter, Fay DuWeye, Dwan Wand
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Science Fiction, Crime, American Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 390
places: San Francisco, California
publisher: Vintage