Book Details
| Title: |
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The Man Who Came Uptown |
| Author: |
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George Pelecanos |
| Times Read: |
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1 |
| Last Read: |
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11.25.18 |
Other Books Read By This Author (18)
- The Big Blowdown
- Buster
- The Cut
- Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go
- Drama City
- A Firing Offense
- Hard Revolution
- King Suckerman
- The Martini Shot
- Nick's Trip
- The Night Gardener
- Owning Up
- Shame the Devil
- Shoedog
- The Sweet Forever
- The Turnaround
- The Way Home
- What it Was
Notes History
| Date Read |
Note |
| 11.25.18 | I tore through this one. Pelecanos' prose and characters are so masculine yet so authentic and earnest. Here, he's clearly pulling on his experience with teaching in jails and puts his love for books on full display. Not only is this book great, it makes you want to read like four, five other books. Plus even though you're dearly rooting for his protagonists, the sense of real world danger and evil is every present, threatening to invade (something Stephen King is also great at). I also love his take on an antagonist here as someone who was mostly good but just let that moral compass veer a little off course. I've never really experienced that before and the mixture / confusion of his actions was really fun to read. With such a lean book, there's a lot being said here but it also creeps with the deliberate speed that I love about Pelecanos's work. I couldn't put this one down; one of my favorites of his for sure. |
