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The Wanderers
by: Richard Price

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780395977743
ISBN: 0395977746
Label: Mariner Books
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 239
Publication Date: April 15, 1999
Publisher: Mariner Books
Studio: Mariner Books
Sales Rank: 74269

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A teenage gang comes of age in the 1960s Bronx. Written when the author was twenty-four, this story was the basis for a major feature film.

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- An eye opening surprise
I have always noticed the difference between books and the movies based on them but wow the changes made from this book into the movie were huge. That being said I really enjoyed the movie and was thrilled to find that it was based on a book. I bought the book on a Saturday and finished it on Sunday. What a great story and much more enjoyable than the movie with its smaller cast. I would say if you are going to read the book then watch the movie don't, watch the movie then read the book, it will be a much better choice

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- Another view of what was happening in the 60's
The Wanderers by Richard Price was a first novel written in 1974 and draws on his teenage years around the Bronx street gangs of the early 60's. It became a successful movie in 1979, which like the book went on to be a cult classic. Richard Price went on to write many other street crime stories such as Clockers and many successful screenplays as in The Colour of Money..

The story follows the last months of members of a teenage street gang called The Wanderers. These are an all-Italian gang comprising of 27 members. They wear bright yellow/brown jackets and blue jeans. Their leader, Richie, is dating Despie Galasso, the daughter of an infamous mobster, so The Wanderers have connections We also get involved with the fights and alliance of the other local gangs such as

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- Like Chewing Sandpaper
Richard Price, one of America's great writers, started his series of novels off on the right foot. Although THE WANDERERS might be described generically as a coming-of-age book, that simply would not do it justice. The book introduces readers to Price's gritty and unrelenting style that not only shows the underbelly of American culture, but shoves it right into the reader's face.

The story centers around a street gang in the Bronx after which this book is named. The Wanderers is only one of many gangs in the area, each struggling for survival and some understanding about the world in which they exist. They are not even the toughest gang out there. The razor-wielding Ducky Boys are as vicious as their name is ridiculous, providing the members of The Wanderers a good deal more ... Read More

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- Gangs Back In the Day
I first read this book not long after it came out in the 70s, when I was barely a teenager (if even that, I don't recall the exact year) and it quickly became one of my favorite books. Since then, Richard Price has gone on to write many more novels, a few of which (including The Wanderers, of course) were made into movies. I don't think any of his books, however, can be better than this, his first one. I should mention here that someone called this a collection of short stories. This is not accurate. It's a novel; I've read it at least three times, I should know :) Someone probably got confused because Price named the chapters, not a very common practice, so perhaps it sounded like they were stories.

This novel is not for the squeamish; it is full of sex, violence and profanity. Perhaps ... Read More

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- Dark side of pre-Beatles teenage America
Anyone who has felt even the slightest pangs of nostalgia for the early '60s should read this marvellous novel. It will shatter their idyllic view of that era forever. The Wanderers is a raw depiction of working class Italian-American life in The Bronx circa 1960 and makes you realise how unglamourous and miserable living in the ghetto must have been back then (probably still is). Bad homes, rough girlfriends, violence lurking on every street corner - it's the ultimate punk rock novel. Yet amidst the despair, this is an outrageously funny book and Price, himself a native of the The Bronx though far more cultivated than he'd like everyone to believe, captures the nuances of the lingo perfectly.

There was a film made of The Wanderers but it's thoroughly lightweight with a really nauseating ... Read More

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