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The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighbourhood Paperback – 2 Apr 2009
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The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a 20-year veteran of the urban drug war, tell the chilling story of this desolate crossroad. Through the eyes of one broken family - two drug-addicted adults and their smart, vulnerable 15-year-old son, DeAndre McCollough - Simon and Burns examine the sinister realities of inner cities across the country and unflinchingly assess why law enforcement policies, moral crusades, and the welfare system have accomplished so little. This extraordinary book is a crucial look at the price of the drug culture and the poignant scenes of hope, caring, and love that astonishingly rise in the midst of a place America has abandoned.
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'The Corner is an intimate, intense dispatch from the broken heart of urban America.'
Richard Price, author of Clockers
The notorious corner of West Fayette and Monroe Streets in Baltimore is a 24-hour open-air drug market that provides the economic fuel for a dying neighbourhood. Through the eyes of one broken family - two drug-addicted adults and their smart, vulnerable 15-year-old son, DeAndre McCullough - Simon and Burns examine the harsh reality of the drug culture and the poignant scenes of hope, caring and love that astonishingly rise in the midst of a place America has abandoned.
'A towering achievement. By narrowing their focus to a single American inner-city neighbourhood, Simon and Burns end up telling something broader in scope, even epic. These singular stories of tragedy and triumph, love and despair tell us more about what's plaguing big cities than a thousand studies. The Corner should be required reading for every public official in America - and beyond. The rest of us should simply read The Corner because it is more touching, mesmerising, maddening, heartbreaking and, ultimately, profound than anything we're likely to encounter in fiction.'
Linwood Barclay, author of No Time for Goodbye
'Brave, unblinkered, and heartbreaking.'
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are able periodically to step back from the individual stories from the street that populate and illuminate this wonderful account of street life in Baltimore to deliver a ...
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