Clockers (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Price
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: New Jersey
- Principal Characters: Strike (Ronald Dunham), Rodney Little, Victor Dunham, Rocco Klein, Erroll Barnes, Darryl Adams, Tyrone Jeeter
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Crime or criminals, Poverty or poor people, Inner cities or inner-city life, Violence, Drugs, Drug trafficking or dealing, Cocaine
- Locales: Dempsy, NJ
The Novel
Hung loosely onto a mystery plot, Clockers immerses the reader in the drug culture of inner-city housing projects, where wealth and death are equally certain and swift. In the low-income housing projects of Dempsy, located between Newark and Jersey City, drugs, crime, and despair never sleep. Violent deaths are commonplace and excite little interest. The plainclothes police teams, dubbed “the Fury” for the dilapidated Plymouth Furys they drive, are as ubiquitous and predictable as AIDS. They follow a daily schedule of harassment, dispiritedly roughing up...
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