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A yearlong portrait of everyday lives that intersect at the corner of West Fayette and Monroe streets, a notoriously crime-ridden intersection in Baltimore. Through the lens of one family in an inner-city neighborhood, this incisive piece of investigative journalism has much to say about hope and hopelessness on an individual and group level. The authors are an award-winning novelist and a public schoolteacher who retired from the city police force after 20 years.
| Size | | Length: | 543 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 17.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
"An accomplished and vivid piece of reporting...."
Kirkus Reviews (08/01/1997)
"[The authors's] aim is to document the 'raw anarchy' of lives in an inner-city neighborhood, but instead of simply unearthing the usual cast of miscreants--and the usual justification for punitive public practices--the authors construct a complex and beautifully written narrative about a group of largely hopeless Americans who have been written off by the rest of society."
San Francisco Book Review (10/26/1997)
"An occasionally meandering, but overall devastating, account of the almost daily hardening of children's hearts and hopes. It is unbearably heartbreaking to read."
Los Angeles Times Book Review (11/16/1997)
"Simon and Burns display an almost religious regard for individual human lives; it is a respect backed up not by cheap sentiment or easy moralizing but by the dangerous, backbreaking labor of intrepid reporting."
New York Times Book Review (11/23/1997)
"A horrible, wonderful book. Horrible in its revelation of a slow-motion civil war at the center of our nation. Wonderful in its reportorial depth, its narrative art, and its recognition of common humanity...."
"Powerful and revealing....It shows us the plight of urban America honestly and without condescending to those trapped on its mean streets. I defy you to read about them and not be moved."
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