The achieved publisher and author recommends stories about gang members, drugs, and down-and-out living The Wanderers by Richard Price (Mariner, $15). The author of Clockers skilfully dips in and out of a lives of a organisation of gang members, delivering a multi-perspective digest of a Bronx circa 1963 that’s also a good coming-of-age book. Price […]

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