The Scene
“Not even Nelson Algren’s The Man with the Golden Arm burns with the ferocious intensity you’ll find here. [Cooper] writes with a personal authority that can only be called shattering and the searing exactness of one who has lived through the horror.” —New York Herald Tribune

The Scene is an urban half-world of drug pushers and users, of pimps and prostitutes and narcotics detectives, laid bare in this explosive novel. From The Panic, the time of no dope, to The Man, who controls its ebb and flow on the streets, The Scene is a gripping work of heightened, hellish realism—a harrowing masterpiece of drug literature.
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The Scene
“Not even Nelson Algren’s The Man with the Golden Arm burns with the ferocious intensity you’ll find here. [Cooper] writes with a personal authority that can only be called shattering and the searing exactness of one who has lived through the horror.” —New York Herald Tribune

The Scene is an urban half-world of drug pushers and users, of pimps and prostitutes and narcotics detectives, laid bare in this explosive novel. From The Panic, the time of no dope, to The Man, who controls its ebb and flow on the streets, The Scene is a gripping work of heightened, hellish realism—a harrowing masterpiece of drug literature.
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The Scene

The Scene

by Clarence Cooper Jr.
The Scene

The Scene

by Clarence Cooper Jr.

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Overview

“Not even Nelson Algren’s The Man with the Golden Arm burns with the ferocious intensity you’ll find here. [Cooper] writes with a personal authority that can only be called shattering and the searing exactness of one who has lived through the horror.” —New York Herald Tribune

The Scene is an urban half-world of drug pushers and users, of pimps and prostitutes and narcotics detectives, laid bare in this explosive novel. From The Panic, the time of no dope, to The Man, who controls its ebb and flow on the streets, The Scene is a gripping work of heightened, hellish realism—a harrowing masterpiece of drug literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393314632
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 07/17/1996
Series: Old School Bks.
Pages: 292
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Born in Detroit in 1934, Clarence Copper, Jr., wrote The Scene while incarcerated and addicted and published it in 1960. Five novels followed in his trouble life, including Weed (1963) and The Farm (1968). He died penniless and alone in New York City in 1978.
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