The Breaks (The Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series) - Softcover

Price, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140070370 ISBN 13: 9780140070378

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1984

Synopsis

Rejected by law school, college graduate Peter Keller takes on a series of jobs that expose him to alternative lifestyles and attitudes and becomes involved in a love triangle with an older woman and her estranged husband

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Price is the author of seven novels, including Lush Life, Clockers, Freedomland, and Samaritan. He wrote the screenplays for the films Sea of Love, Ransom, and The Color of Money, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He won the 2007 Edgar Award for Best TV writing as a co-writer for the HBO series The Wire. Price was also awarded a Literature Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York City.

Review:

“A glorious, gritty comedy.” ―The New Yorker

“Richard Price is to fiction what Martin Scorsese is to film....He has a genuine gift; his style is energetic, his eye for catching the minutiae of pop culture is keen, he swings to the jangling rhythms of city life.” ―The Washington Post Book World

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0140070370
• ISBN 13: 9780140070378
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 446