- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Viking UK (July 1 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0670861324
- ISBN-13: 978-0670861323
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.2 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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From Publishers Weekly
This hard-edged, stunning first novel is set on and around the corner of Third and Indiana in the "Badlands" of Philadelphia. Fourteen-year-old Gabriel Santoro has been assigned to this spot by a local drug king, Diablo, and it is here that the boy makes a small fortune by handing out crack to people in passing cars. Gabriel has run away from home, and his mother, Ofelia, aided by a sympathetic priest, is looking for him. What she doesn't know is that her son is staying with Eddie Passarelli, who needs 10 grand to pay back a mobster for the loss of a loaned truck; meanwhile, Diablo is demanding two grand from Gabriel to make up for an alleged shortage in his cash count. Money, with its awful power, is almost a separate character in this novel. Some, like Gabriel, become drug dealers to get more of it; others, like Eddie, are endangered because they don't have enough of it. Lopez (a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer ) doesn't preach, however; with brutal honesty, he alternates scenes of despair with glimmerings of hope and, even when detailing matter-of-fact violence, he writes with compassion about those trapped in a world where men like Diablo make the rules and are the arbiters of life and death. He also employs a brilliant visual image: spray-painted silhouettes that appear on North Broad Street whenever a teenager dies in a gun-related incident. It's an image that is as haunting as this tough, compelling novel. 50,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo; author tour.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
Ofelia Santoro is determined to save her runaway son, Gabriel, from the drug dealers whose turf is Philadelphia's Badlands. Every night she rides a bicycle up and down the inner-city streets searching for her son, and every night she passes the folk-art memorial created in homage to the children who die every day as a result of the drug wars--an unknown artist is spray painting the outlines of children's bodies in the middle of the street; eventually, the bodies will pile up at the doorstep of City Hall. Fourteen-year-old Gabriel would like nothing better than to go home to his mother, but he's in too deep. His promotion from lookout to crack dealer has come with a price. The ruthless gang leader is convinced that Gabriel has been skimming profits, and it's payback time. First-novelist Lopez, a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, siphons off the power of his eloquent images and his gritty sense of place with a slapstick subplot involving some bumbling thieves. This one lacks the intensity of Richard Price's Clockers (1992) and the lyricism of Jess Mowry's books; however, Lopez's Philadelphia is a marvel, its ruined streets and decaying infrastructure drawn with a delicate precision. Joanne Wilkinson
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Real Philly Streets and Tragedy,
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This review is from: Third and Indiana: A Novel (Paperback)
Absolutely the way it is. Lopez fused a reporter's eye with a novelists' soul and artistry with no small success. Somewhat awkward stylistically- it feels like a new form- but very slightly diminshed. This is a page turner, a shocker and a fine story.Realistic art and tragedy- a slam dunk.
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THIRD AND INDIANA,
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This review is from: Third and Indiana: A Novel (Paperback)
The book Third and Indiana is a very good and realistic book.Ilike how Steve Lopez kept it real. He told you about the drug game.It's avery good book. I think that every teenager should read this book.
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Third And Indiana,
This review is from: Third and Indiana: A Novel (Paperback)
I think that Third and Indiana is a good book. it is about life of Gabriel a boy who runs away from home and becomes a drug dealer for Diablo. In the end Gabriel wants out and Diablo goes after him and finds him kills him.In the end I think that Diablo should die and Gabriel should live
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