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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780316156479 Edition: 1st ISBN: 0316156477 Label: Little, Brown and Company Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: August 01, 2008 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Studio: Little, Brown and Company Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: On a hot summer afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever. Thirty five years later, one survivor of that day reaches out to another, opening a door that could lead to salvation. But another survivor is now out of prison, looking for reparation in any form he can find it. THE TURNAROUND takes us on a journey from the rock-and-soul streets of the '70s to the changing neighborhoods of D.C. today, from the diners and auto garages of the city to the inside of Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital, where wounded men and women have returned to the world in a time of war. A novel of fathers and sons, wives and husbands, loss, victory and violent redemption, THE TURNAROUND is another compelling, highly charged novel from George Pelecanos, "the best crime novelist in America." -Oregonian Average Rating:
 Rating: - "What matters now is how you make the turnaround."Pelecanos takes the life-changing events of one night of random violence in 1972 Washington, DC, building a tale of consequence and retribution as troubled men learn to coexist with their burdened pasts. When three white teens, Billy, Pete and Alex, stoned and bored, drive recklessly into an exclusively black neighborhood, Heathrow Heights, hurling insults at three young black men outside a local store, they find their easy escape thwarted by a dead end. Forced to turn around and face ... Read More Rating: - One Incident Impacts LivesThe Turnaround is a true story of three white kids who on a summer day, went into a black neighborhood and had an incident with three black kids which affected them for years. It's a real page turner; however, not for everyone. I recommend it to anyone who likes reading about "street life." Rating:  - Noir flavored by compassion This novel -- an increasingly gripping read as it moves along -- explores how a violent racial incident in 1972 shaped -- or shattered -- the adult lives of the men, black and white, who twenty-five years ago were the teenagers involved in the incident. The principal characters, the scene, and bits of the incident are sketched in a short first section, set in 1972, when three white kids on a thoughtless and stupid summertime lark drive into the unknown streets of a neighboring black community in the ... Read More Rating: - Out of the PastI've been a huge Pelecanos fan since I discovered his books in the early '90s, so every new one from him is something to be savored over a long weekend. I finally got a chance to sit down and read this latest, and am happy to report that it's a return to his usual excellent form after the somewhat disappointing Night Gardener. Fans of out and out crime books may not be so pleased though, because, as is becoming more obvious with every book, Pelecanos is losing his interest in telling crime stories, and ... Read More Rating:  - Author's Political Agenda Another blank slate for the author to give us a view of his politics. Tell me about it on the cover so I don't waste my money. 
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