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The Night of the Wolf. On the Avenue in the bleak area where New York City blends into suburbia, the Orphans, their fast Fords and their Chevys 'coated by ice and leather and white dust', prepare to engage in deadly, intricately structured games of combat. It is a world of grotesque, horrifying violence, fear, bravado and drugs, redeemed in the minds of its inhabitants by codes of honour, by chivalrous intentions and by the purity of their struggle for power, dominance, territory. This is the setting of Alice Hoffman's unsparing and unsentimental novel. Her heroine, 17 years old, quick witted yet vulnerable, falls helplessly in love with McKay, the Orphan's 22 year old president and their doomed love story is told in desperate counterpoint to the punk lyrical flippancies of throbbing car radios and jukes.
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About the Author
Alice Hoffman’s most recent novel is The Third Angel. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City.
Review
“Like Anne Tyler, Hoffman spins a story enchantingly, with the undeniable force and vividness of a dream.” –Ms.
“She is a born storyteller.” –Entertainment Weekly
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Condition: GOOD. First printing. Hoffman's striking and original first novel - the story of one of "the girls in mascara and leather and silence" who are the "property of" the Orphans gang - and of a gang-leader's notions of honor, and of drugs. SIGNED on the title page. 248 pp. Good in a good only dustjacket (some bleeding from the bottom of the spine affecting some pages and the endpapers in the bottom of the gutter, and dampstaining to the bottom of the back cover of the dj, but otherwise a tight copy.). Seller Inventory # 49462
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