Street Fiction

Plot Overview (from the back of the book)
He stared at his hands, hands which had spilled so much blood and rubbed them together in a washing motion. Snake, intuitive as ever, placed a friendly hand on his shoulder and said, “The only thing that will make that damned spot go away is time, Jackson. Time [...]

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Plot Overview (from the back of the book)
The author of Cotton Comes to Harlem offers here his most dramatic and thrilling novel. A white undercover cop vents his rage and starts a cycle of violence from which there is no escape.
Walker, one of New York’s embittered policemen, is vicious when drunk. Staggering into a restaurant [...]

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Plot Overview (from the back of the book)
This powerful and heavily autobiographical novel chronicles the disconcerting initiation of a college-educated waiter and writer Sid Bailey into the teeming life of Logan, a Harlem welfare hotel. Bailey gradually sheds his straight ways as he becomes adept in the ways of a motley crew of addicts, pushers, [...]

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