Homeboy - Couverture rigide

Morgan, Seth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0701136642 ISBN 13 : 9780701136642

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 1990

Synopsis

Joe Speaker is a barker at a strip joint who has a heroin habit. After a botched robbery and the violent murder of a prostitute, Joe is thrown in jail. This story of murder and retribution was written by a man who won a PEN contest for convicts, while serving a sentence for armed robbery.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

HOMEBOY, Seth Morgan's stunning novel, is a gritty, ribald, and frenetically lyrical odyssey through the Strip in San Francisco -a netherworld of whores, pimps, dealers, and junkies - to the hell of Coldwater Penitentiary. After a high-priced hooker is killed and one of the world's biggest diamonds is stolen, Joe Speaker, a strip-joint barker and dope addict, stumbles onto the missing jewel, is hunted down and put away for the murder. In prison, he finds that his troubles are just beginning.

Biographie de l'auteur

Seth Morgan was born in 1949. After dropping out of Berkeley he became Janis Joplin's lover and was her fiance at the time of her death. He then spent several years working at strip joints on Broadway, until he was arrested for armed robbery and sent to State Prison in California. Seth Morgan's writing career began when he won a PEN essay contest for convicts. He died in October 1990. He was working on a second novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0701136642
• ISBN 13: 9780701136642
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 390
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible