The Literature Network - The price of city life. (author Richard Price)(Writer Profile)(Interview)

The price of city life. (author Richard Price)(Writer Profile)(Interview)

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Writer Richard Price has written his third novel 'Clockers' which has been filmed by Spike Lee. His two other novels are 'The Wanderers' and 'Blood Brothers.'

The new Spike Lee movie Clockers originated in the powerful novel by Richard Price, one author and screenwriter who's prepared to show American inner-city life as it really is - and one who consistently spins poetry from its language and rhythms

Writer Richard Price is a noir naturalist, the bright, savage love child of Emile Zola, James T. Farrell, and Mickey Spillane. Born in the Bronx in 1949, he has never really left, in ...

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