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Blue Blood
by Conlon, Edward
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1573222666
- ISBN 13
- 9781573222662
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Riverhead Hardcover, 2004-04-11. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Signed by Author. Inscribed by author on title page. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Light soiling on rear pastedown & endpaper. Binding loose at page 402. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly shelf worn with scuffs & creases in a mylar cover.
Synopsis
"A great book... with the testimonial force equal to that of Michael Herr's Dispatches ."— Time Edward Conlon's Blue Blood is an ambitious and extraordinary work of nonfiction about what it means to protect, to serve, and to defend among the ranks of New York's finest. Told by a fourth generation NYPD, this is an anecdotal history of New York as experienced through its police force, and depicts a portrait of the teeming street life of the city in all its horror and splendor. It is a story about police politics, fathers and sons, partners who become brothers, old ghosts and undying legacies. Conlon joined the NYPD during the Giuliani administration, when New York City saw its crime rate plummet but also witnessed events that would alter the city, its inhabitants, and its police force forever: polarizing racial cases, the proliferation of the drug trade, and the events of September 11, 2001, and its aftermath. Conlon captures the detail of the landscape, the ironies and rhythms of natural speech, the tragic and the marvelous, firsthand, day after day. A New York Times Notable Book and Finalist for The National Book Criticics Circle Award for Nonfiction.
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- Bookseller
- Chaparral Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- PARSconBLU
- Title
- Blue Blood
- Author
- Conlon, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1573222666
- ISBN 13
- 9781573222662
- Publisher
- Riverhead Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004-04-11
- Size
- 6x1x9
- X weight
- 31 oz
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Chaparral Books
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About Chaparral Books
Chaparral Books is located across from Elephant's Deli on S Corbett Avenue in Portland. We have a well rounded collection of subjects, including an extensive core collection in Western Americana and Native American Literature including Western Writers.
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