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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.

Richard Price is the author of six novels and numerous screenplays, including The Color of Money, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. His work has appeared in many publications, including the New York Times, The New Yorker, and Esquire, and he has taught fiction writing at Yale, Columbia, and New York University. In 1999, he received the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He and his family live in Manhattan.