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Shoedog

George Pelecanos

Constantine is a drifter with a lot of miles behind him a lot more ahead and plenty of jobs in between that never showed up on anyone's books. Back in his home town he hitches a ride on a bright spring morning with a little man named Polk. There's one stop Polk needs to make and it changes Constantine's life forever. Like the kind of cars they don't make anymore and the kind of songs they don't sing <i>Shoedog</i> has the style rhythm and muscle of a classic.>

  • Classification : Thriller, Crime & Mystery
  • Pub Date : MAY 6, 2010
  • Imprint : Serpent's Tail
  • Page Extent : 224
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781846687365
  • Price : INR 550
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George Pelecanos

George Pelecanos was born in Washington, D.C. in 1957. He worked as a line cook, dishwasher, bartender, and woman's shoe salesman before publishing his first novel in 1992. Pelecanos is the author of twenty books set in and around Washington, D.C. He is an award-winning essayist who has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker and numerous other publications. Esquire magazine called him "the poet laureate of the D.C. crime world." In Entertainment Weekly, Stephen King wrote that Pelecanos is "perhaps the greatest living American crime writer." Pelecanos was a producer, writer, and story editor for the acclaimed HBO dramatic series, The Wire, winner of the Peabody Award, the AFI Award, and the Edgar. He was nominated for an Emmy for his writing on that show. He was a writer and co-producer on the World War II miniseries The Pacific, produced by Steven Spielberg, and most recently worked as a writer and Executive Producer on the HBO series Treme. Pelecanos lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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