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Book Description Condition: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Seller Inventory # L10E-01735
Book Description Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # 38924021-6
Book Description Condition: Good. Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 1.1. Seller Inventory # bk0871132605xvz189zvxgdd
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Book Description paperback. Condition: Very Good in Wrappers. 1st edition. New York. 1988. Atlantic Monthly Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. 0871132605. 295 pages. paperback. Cover design by Lorraine Louie. Cover photograph by Nancy Crampton. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - As incendiary as it is ultimately, tragically humane, KILL THE POOR is about accommodation, assimilation, and the urban nightmare that is fully capable of bending the American dream beyond recognition. Jo-Jo Peltz makes his living selling papers at his family's Times Square newsstand. Returning from the long road of hard drugs and deep confusion, desperate for a place to live, he and his pregnant wife end up with a piece of a homesteading project. on the Lower East Side, on the same block where his grandparents first lived when they immigrated to America in 1903. It's not a foreign planet to Jo-Jo: he used to buy his dope here, run the mean streets, even attend the neighborhood synagogue when he was a boy, but the terms of the once fabled melting pot have been changed by the faces and language of a new immigrant people. With Jo-Jo we contend with gentrifiers, homeboys, dealers, and police; with family, friends, and neighborhood people simply bent on staying alive in an urban frontier where killing poverty pits each camp against all the others. And in his attempt to make a home for himself, his wife, and their newborn daughter, Jo-Jo finally confronts the man who is both his rival and his double - a conflict that relentlessly leads to arson and death. inventory #26511. Seller Inventory # z26511
Book Description paperback. Condition: Very Good in Wrappers. 1st edition. New York. 1988. Atlantic Monthly Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. 0871132605. 295 pages. paperback. Cover design by Lorraine Louie. Cover photograph by Nancy Crampton. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - As incendiary as it is ultimately, tragically humane, KILL THE POOR is about accommodation, assimilation, and the urban nightmare that is fully capable of bending the American dream beyond recognition. Jo-Jo Peltz makes his living selling papers at his family's Times Square newsstand. Returning from the long road of hard drugs and deep confusion, desperate for a place to live, he and his pregnant wife end up with a piece of a homesteading project. on the Lower East Side, on the same block where his grandparents first lived when they immigrated to America in 1903. It's not a foreign planet to Jo-Jo: he used to buy his dope here, run the mean streets, even attend the neighborhood synagogue when he was a boy, but the terms of the once fabled melting pot have been changed by the faces and language of a new immigrant people. With Jo-Jo we contend with gentrifiers, homeboys, dealers, and police; with family, friends, and neighborhood people simply bent on staying alive in an urban frontier where killing poverty pits each camp against all the others. And in his attempt to make a home for himself, his wife, and their newborn daughter, Jo-Jo finally confronts the man who is both his rival and his double - a conflict that relentlessly leads to arson and death. inventory #27908. Seller Inventory # z27908
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. signed by author; signature obtained in person by bookseller; the book depicts "scintillating slices of life in Manhattan's notorious alphabet city.a world of gang fights, sneak thieves.," according to LA Weekly. The back cover has some wrinkles; some page discoloration due to age of book. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 2407