description: Award-winning author Richard Price here 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: Ronald "Strike" Dunham, Rocco Klein, Rodney Little, Larry Mazilli, Errol Barnes
genres: American, Thriller, Literary Fiction, Novels, Crime, Literature, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 9186
places: New Jersey
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Random House Value Publishing