Drama City

Lorenzo Brown just wants to stay straight After eight years in prison on a drug charge, he s come uptown back to the Washington, DC neighborhood where he grew up, where his old cohorts still work their corners and their angles, trying to get ahead and stay alive But Lorenzo s had enough of the life Now he has a job as a Humane Society officer, policing animal abusers and protecting the abused In the dangerous streets he used to menace, Lorenzo plays a part in maintain ing order and it s a role reversal some of his former friends don t appreciate Rachel Lopez, Lorenzo s parole officer, tries to help him, even as she battles her own demons and excesses Trying to stay one step ahead of her troubled past is a daily struggle It looks like they both might make it, until a malevolent young killer, working for the powerful local drug boss, changes everything with one violent act Now Lorenzo finds himself caught between the light and dark sides of the street, struggling to stay legit or throw everything away to exact revenge. Read Drama City – kino-fada.fr Lorenzo Brown, dog catcher and ex con, struggles to keep from falling back into his old ways, while his parole officer, Rachel Lopez, has some problems of her own What will happen when two drug factions get into a dispute and Brown and Lopez find themselves caught in the crossfire Drama City is a throwback to George Pelecanos DC Quartet While it s a crime book, it s also a story of life in Washington, DC In this case, it s the story of a black man trying not to fall back into a life of dealin Lorenzo Brown, dog catcher and ex con, struggles to keep from falling back into his old ways, while his parole officer, Rachel Lopez, has some problems of her own What will happen when two drug factions get i...DRAMA CITYPiacevole sorpresa Pelecanos.Lo si incrocia in quei contesti e ambiti, e premi, che includono nomi come Winslow e Jefferson Parker, per citare mie letture recenti ma Pelecanos mi ha colpito, e sorpreso, gli altri due non altrettanto Suspect Presunto colpevole un film del 1987 diretto da Peter Yates ambientato a Washington Qui la protagonista Cher, e un coprotagonista, Dennis Quaid per entrambi era il periodo pi fulgido della carriera da attore.Ho letto che ambienta tutte le sue s DRAMA CITYPiacevole sorpresa Pelecanos.Lo si incrocia in quei contesti e ambiti, e premi, che includono nomi come Winslow e Jefferson Parker, per citare mie letture recenti ma Pelecanos mi ha colpito, e sorpreso, gli altri due non altrettanto Suspect Presunto colpevole un film del 1987 diretto da Peter Yates ambientato a Washington Qui la protagonista Cher, e un coprotagonista, Dennis Quaid per entrambi era il periodo pi fulgido della carriera da attore.Ho letto che ambienta tutte le sue storie a Washington, citt capitale che si sa ha partorito contrasti pazzeschi, dalla Casa Bianca a quartieri poveri come pochi altri Drama City , il titolo originale, un viaggio tra gli umili, tra gli ultimi, tra gente piena di sfumature anche nel Bene e nel Male, ...A high three stars I couldn t bring myself to give this four stars I think I ve been giving out too many four stars lately, so this one gets a three It s kind of like life in the game, sometimes shit just doesn t go your way Like the streets the book reviewing game has its victims The book is enjoyable There are only some many times I can make The Wire references about Pelecanos, or maybe I ve only made one reference in the past, but it still seems too much to repeat myself But reading Pe A high three stars I couldn t bring myself to give this four stars I think I ve been giving out too many four stars lately, so this one gets a three It s kind of like life in the game, sometimes shit just doesn t go your way Like the streets the book reviewing game has its victims The book is enjoyable There are only some many times I can make The Wire references about Pelecanos, or maybe I ve only made one reference in the past, but it still seems too much to repeat myself But reading Pelecanos is sort of like reading a minor sub plot line out of the TV show There was a small nod towards Omar in a Snoop esque character, which I would have enjoyed being developed a bitthan the tortured souls of the those that have left the game these tortured older people seem to be the bread and butter of Pelecanos, or maybe they seemed too much like the characters in Shame the Devil and The Way Home Drama City wasn t as good as his newest novel The moral ambiguity that I loved s...This is another excellent novel from George Pelecanos who demonstrates once again that he knows the seamier side of Washington, D.C inside and out and can portray it better than anyone else Even better are the characters who populate this novel some good, some bad, some still making up their minds, but virtually all of them struggling in one way or another.The main protagonist, Lorenzo Brown, once ran with a rough gang headed by his best boyhood friend But after serving eight years in prison This is another excellent novel from George Pelecanos who demonstrates once again that he knows the seamier side of Washington, D.C inside and out and can portray it better than anyone else Even better are the characters who populate this novel some good, some bad, some still making up their minds, but virtually all of them struggling in one way or another.The main protagonist, Lorenzo Brown, once ran with a rough gang headed by ...While a familiar man walks his familiar dog by a familiar sign at the beginning of this book, it isn t about any recurring characters, which actually happens to be quite refreshing I like Derek Strange all that, but Lorenzo Brown canthan hang on his own without any help fromfamiliar D.C guys There are all the usual suspects of the drug trade the murd...The book Drama City is an aberration for George Pelecanos One of the two main characters is actually a woman Having a woman as a main player is almost unheard of for Pelecanos Now we just have to see if there is any character development of Parole Officer Rachel Lopez And what do you think Are we going to find out some about herthan her body type and what she drinks Eureka, yes we are But, like I say, an aberration But I m going to enjoy it while I can Hello, Rachel, good to know The book Drama City is an aberration for George Pelecanos One of the two main characters is actually a woman Having a woman as a main player is almost unheard of for Pelecanos Now we just have to see if there is any character development of Parole Officer Rachel Lopez And what do you think Are we going to find out some about herthan her body type and what she drinks Eureka, yes we are But, like I say, an aberration But I m going to enjoy it while I can Hello, Rachel, good to know you.The book starts in a familiar neighborhood so we are comfortable in our surroundings immediately However, there are some new Pelecanos characters in the hood People particular to this book Life can be rough in this part of DC but that is to be expected of Pelecanos He doesn t hang in nice, middle class neighborhoods But ...There is something about a Pelecanos book that is like sitting in a classroom, making dreamy eyes at your favorite professor as he lectures about your favorite topic while you wear your favorite clothes on your favorite day of the best year of your life.Not that Pelecanos is expository Or dry Or anything remotely like listening to a lecture, in the slightest.But reading him, I learn I learn so much about Washington, DC About people About crime and violence and struggling and living.Drama Ci There is something about a Pelecanos book that is like sitting in a classroom, making dreamy eyes at your favorite professor as he lectures about your favorite topic while you wear your favorite clothes on your favorite day of the best year of your life.Not that Pelecanos is expository Or dry Or anything remotely like listening to a lecture, in the slightest.But reading him, I learn I learn so much about Washington, DC About people About crime and violence and struggling and living.Drama City is nominally about Lorenzo Brown, ex offender, now working for the Humane Society, and Rachel Lopez, his parol officer Lorenzo and Rachel gets caught up in the spiraling violence between two local gangs on...A fast read Be warned though, this book does have some unflinchingly brutal dog fight passages, and that kind of thing can be a lotta no fun But luckily Pelecanos takes some satisfying shots at the culture, calling out posers who think of a scary dog as a status symbol, as well as the idiotic 90s dog fighting boom, where everyone who wasn t fighting a pit bull certainly wanted you to think they were In fact, even though this book was published in 2005, it feels very grounded in the 90s, fu A fast read Be warned though, this book does have some unflinchingly brutal dog fight passages, and that kind of thing can be a lotta no fun But luckily Pelecanos takes some satisfying shots at the culture, calling out posers who think of a scary dog as a status symbol, as well as the idiotic 90s dog fighting boom, where everyone who wasn t fighting a pit bull certainly wanted you to think they were In fact, even though this book was published in 2005, it feels very grounded in the 90s, full of that era s music, sometimes in flashbacks, sometimes not The main characters are memorable, too The two major players, slow burning ex con Lorenzo and Rachel day and night versions , are both introduced ef...I quite enjoyed this story of a criminal trying to stay straight and getting caught up with characters from his past the characters are well drawn and the novel is very atmospheric However I felt the climax was an anti climax Without giving anything away I was expectingof a showdown, which didn t h...Theyou walk this road, the longer the road seems to be I m not entirely sure how George Pelecanos does it Drama City is yet another example of the man s brilliance He tells a huge number of stories all at once by weaving together the lives of the main players with those of the supporting cast and still manages to drive forward a central theme that never lets on about where it s going until things reach their climax.Lorenz...

• English
• 09 November 2018
George Pelecanos
• Hardcover
• 291 pages
• 0316608211
• George Pelecanos
• Drama City