Biography - Pelecanos, George P. (1957-): An article ...
 Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 7 Publication Date: 2006-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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King Suckerman
the bi-centennial, blaxploitation ... and that's about it: 'King Suckerman' is by some accounts among George Pelecanos's weaker efforts, and by other accounts his most enjoyable read. Like all his works this book takes place in Washington (, D.C.) and [... more]
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Shame the Devil: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: Penzler Pick, February 2000: Just as Robert B. Parker and Dennis Lehane have made Boston their own and Los Angeles has been the distinct province of a lineage leading from Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald to Michael Connelly and [... more]
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A Firing Offense (A Five Star Title)
DEFINITELY A "GUY'S" AUTHOR: When I started reading Pelecanos, it began with "Right As Rain" after seeing him at a book signing in Philadelphia a few years ago. After that reading experience, I knew I had to read some more of his [... more]
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Nick's Trip
Not His Best: I am a fan of Pelecanos' novels. He is one of the best mystery writers around. His stories are character driven, well written, and full of atmosphere. So what's wrong with Nick's Trip? There's too much trip. We spend too much time driving [... more]
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Night Gardener, the (Spanish Edition)
Outstanding thriller: I'm a big fan of the police procedural/thriller genre when it comes to TV and movies--frequently getting sucked into reruns of "Law & Order: SVU" when I should be doing other things--but for some reason I haven't read [... more]
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Soul Circus
Amazon.com Review: George Pelecanos's Washington, D.C., is a place rife with high-living drug dealers, easily obtained guns, and a generation depleted by ignorance, excessive machismo, and misplaced trust in the equalizing power of violence. Yet PI Derek [... more]
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Drama City
Amazon.com Review: The real test of an author's skill is sometimes to be found not in an unusually conceived work, but in his or her ability to create a consuming tale out of what, in outline form, might sound like an all-too-familiar or mundane plot [... more]
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The Big Blowdown
Standin' in line to see Krupa and the Dorseys, pullin' my fedora over my eyes: An excellent book. As one reader put it, 'I love this period piece.' As I had conversations with my father about his growing up in New York, it always seemed to me that this [... more]
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Soul Circus
Amazon.com Review: George Pelecanos's Washington, D.C., is a place rife with high-living drug dealers, easily obtained guns, and a generation depleted by ignorance, excessive machismo, and misplaced trust in the equalizing power of violence. Yet PI Derek [... more]
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Hard Revolution
How does he know this stuff?: The best writer of black crime fiction is white. Pelecanos knows stuff that no other white person knows and stuff that no black would ever tell a white. How does he know this stuff? While other writers may have black [... more]
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Hard Revolution
How does he know this stuff?: The best writer of black crime fiction is white. Pelecanos knows stuff that no other white person knows and stuff that no black would ever tell a white. How does he know this stuff? While other writers may have black [... more]
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