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Nice boy / a novel by George Veltri.
Van Pelt Library PS3572.E43 N53 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Veltri, George.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 185 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : City Lights Books, 1995.
- Summary:
- Nice Boy is as fast-paced and intoxicating as the drugs that dominate the lives of its characters. Excitement and unexpected complications enter Gregory's life as he begins to move away from his stable working-class neighborhood in Queens and into the hazardous underbelly of New York street life. Through a series of savage and humorous vignettes, Veltri creates the unforgettable pageant of Gregory's large Italian-American family, his friends, addicts, hustlers, sadistic cops, and the denizens of rehab. This is not the story of a young drug addict trying to kick heroin, but is an incantatory tale about ordinary people in the urban world, some who suffer and die and some who survive.
- ISBN:
- 0872863026
- OCLC:
- 32131634
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