Homeboy
Homeboy
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Summary
The first novel of an author who was a survivor of the the San Francisco street drug culture and a former convict. It aims to capture the underside of big-city life and pillory the prison system as it takes the reader on a nightmarish journey between criminality and justice.
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Homeboy by Seth Morgan
HOMEBOY, Seth Morgan's stunning novel, is a gritty, ribald, and frenetically lyrical odyssey through the Strip in San Francisco -a netherworld of whores, pimps, dealers, and junkies - to the hell of Coldwater Penitentiary. After a high-priced hooker is killed and one of the world's biggest diamonds is stolen, Joe Speaker, a strip-joint barker and dope addict, stumbles onto the missing jewel, is hunted down and put away for the murder. In prison, he finds that his troubles are just beginning.
Seth Morgan was born in 1949. After dropping out of Berkeley he became Janis Joplin's lover and was her fiance at the time of her death. He then spent several years working at strip joints on Broadway, until he was arrested for armed robbery and sent to State Prison in California. Seth Morgan's writing career began when he won a PEN essay contest for convicts. He died in October 1990. He was working on a second novel.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780099801603 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099801604 |
| Title | Homeboy |
| Author | Seth Morgan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1991-06-20 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |