The warriors
By: Sol Yurick.
Edition: 1st Grove press ed.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Gangs -- Fiction.; Violence -- Fiction.; Teenage boys -- Fiction.; Fourth of July -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "The night of July 4. Teenage violence runs wild through the streets, exploding with firecrackers and patriotic celebration. In the Bronx, the police move in to break up a citywide convention of gang leaders. Whistles, shots, pounding nightsticks, and suddenly, six members of "the Family"--The Coney Island Dominators - are alone on emeny terrain. Their desperate flight back to their native turf is a journey that will leave the awestruck reader at a new station of awareness"--Bookjacket.