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Literature & Fiction

Third and Indiana: A Novel

Third and Indiana: A Novel

In the Philadelphia neighborhood known as the Badlands, drug gangs rule absolutely. Each time a life is lost in the carnage of the local drug wars, a boldly drawn chalk outline of a body appears on the street leading up to City hall: a teenaged dealer, a priest, a little girl with a jump rope. Ofelia Santoro rides her bicycle through the dark, decaying streets, looking for her fourteen-year-old-son, Gabriel. Sheâ€™s afraid of what she might find. Gabriel has fallen in with the most savage of the drug dealers, but now wants to get outâ€”if he can. In this gritty, fast-moving novel, acclaimed Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Steve Lopez brings home the violence that is scarring Americaâ€™s vast urban wastelands, and the humanity that might save them.

â€œAn unfancy prose is streaked by strong, cinematic images . . . Lopez aims to prick consciences, in the tradition of the documentary novelist, and he does so with considerable style.â€â€”The Daily Telegraph
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â€œLopez has done what Balzac, Dickens . . . and Dostoevsky did so masterfully: he has taken a torch to the back of the cave and returned to tell us what he has seen.â€ â€“Pete Hamill, The Philadelphia InquirerÂ
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber RKC2004640550
Color Black
ReleaseDate 1995-10-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780140239454

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