PRAISE FOR THE TURNAROUND:
"Yet another gem of urban noir....A beautifully written andthought-provoking novel of crime, friendship, aging andredemption." (Publishers Weekly (starred review) )
"[Pelecanos] tells a tight, suspenseful story. And he packsenough of a wallop to put THE TURNAROUND on an express bus of itsown." (New York Times Janet Maslin )
"Pelecanos does what few, if any, American writers do: He tellsthe truth. Twain told the truth; Faulkner toyed with the truth;Hemingway told his version of the truth, and Chandler certainlytold a cold, cynical truth. Pelecanos"s truth is from deep in theheart, from places where red blood cells know more than all thesweet, heady words truth usually hides behind." (ChicagoSun-Times Randy Michael Signor )
"George Pelecanos is one of the most literary of America"s crimewriters, and like most of his books, THE TURNAROUND is more thanmere entertainment. This beautifully written novel, rich withcarefully wrought characters, is both a fine crime story and athoughtful exploration of race relations in the lives of ordinaryAmericans." (Associated Press Bruce DeSilva)
On a hot summer afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove intoan unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were alteredforever.
Thirty five years later, one survivor of that day reaches out toanother, opening a door that could lead to salvation. But anothersurvivor is now out of prison, looking for reparation in any formhe can find it.
THE TURNAROUND takes us on a journey from the rock-and-soulstreets of the "70s to the changing neighborhoods of D.C. today,from the diners and auto garages of the city to the inside ofWalter Reed Army Medical Hospital, where wounded men and women havereturned to the world in a time of war. A novel of fathers andsons, wives and husbands, loss, victory and violent redemption, THETURNAROUND is another compelling, highly charged novel from GeorgePelecanos, "the best crime novelist in America."-Oregonian
George Pelecanos is an independent-film producer, an essayist,the recipient of numerous international writing awards, a producerand an Emmy-nominated writer on the HBO hit series TheWire, and the author of a bestselling series of novels set inand around Washington, D.C.
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