The Scene (Old School Books) - Softcover

Clarence Cooper Jr.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393314634 ISBN 13: 9780393314632

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996

Synopsis

“Not even Nelson Algren’s The Man with the Golden Arm burns with the ferocious intensity you’ll find here. [Cooper] writes with a personal authority that can only be called shattering and the searing exactness of one who has lived through the horror.” ―New York Herald Tribune

The Scene is an urban half-world of drug pushers and users, of pimps and prostitutes and narcotics detectives, laid bare in this explosive novel. From The Panic, the time of no dope, to The Man, who controls its ebb and flow on the streets, The Scene is a gripping work of heightened, hellish realism―a harrowing masterpiece of drug literature.

About this title

Review:

Born in 1934, Clarence Cooper, Jr.'s life was shaped by incarceration and drug addiction. The intensity of addiction and the violence and greed he experienced on the streets are the basis for The Scene, his first novel. First published in 1960, this explosive book depicts the hellish realism of the urban underground world of drug pushers, users and narcotics detectives. Upon its publication, The New York Herald Tribune said: "Not even Nelson Algren's The Man With the Golden Arm burns with the ferocious intensity you'll find here."

From the Back Cover:

The scene is an urban half-world of drug pushers and users, of pimps and prostitutes and narcotics detectives, laid bare in this explosive novel. From The Panic, the time of no dope, to The Man, who controls its ebb and flow on the streets, The Scene is a gripping work of heightened, hellish realism - a harrowing masterpiece of drug literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0393314634
• ISBN 13: 9780393314632
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292