Owning Up
From the writer/producer on The Wire, The Deuce and We Own This City
$33.94
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
26 May 2025
Summary
‘Perhaps the greatest living American crime writer’ STEPHEN KING
‘Pelecanos… has continued to produce first rate crime novels’ BRUCE DESILVA
After the Carusos family home is destroyed by police with a no-knock warrant, the family struggle to return to normal.
Two former inmates reunite on a TV set. They’re both back on the straight and narrow … until one sees the potential for an easy grift.
A teenage boy must step into the man he’d like to be as a hostage cris…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781398721197 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1398721190 |
| Author: | George Pelecanos |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Orion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 26 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 209g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 22mm |
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About The Author
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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