Review Quotes Praise for The Corner The Corner is an intimate, intense dispatch from the broken heart of urban America. This extraordinary book is a crucial look at the price of the drug culture and the poignant scenes of hope, caring, and love that astonishingly rise in the midst of a place America has abandoned. Through the eyes of one broken family-two drug-addicted adults and their smart, vulnerable 15-year-old son, DeAndre McCollough, Simon and Burns examine the sinister realities of inner cities across the country and unflinchingly assess why law enforcement policies, moral crusades, and the welfare system have accomplished so little. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a 20-year veteran of the urban drug war, tell the chilling story of this desolate crossroad. But this notorious corners 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. Book Synopsis The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known-and cautiously avoided-by most of Baltimore.
About the Book From the prize-winning author of Homicide and a former police detective comes the searing true story of one of Americas most crime-ridden neighborhoods, located in Baltimore, and a family struggling to survive there.
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