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“As unstoppable as a train coming through a tunnel… [Price]
manages to give the story a fierce momentum, one that makes
putting this book aside to or eat or do anything else very
difficult… This book literally interrupted my professional and
personal life. Once in, I had to stay in and stick with it to the
end.” ―Michael Connelly, The New York Times Book Review, cover
review
“Riveting… [Price] has a knack for using…detective work the way
John le Carré has used stories and tradecraft, as a framework
on which to build complex investigations into the human soul...
No one these days writes with more kinetic energy or more
hard-boiled verve… A gripping procedural and an affecting
study in character and e.” ―Michiko Kakutani, The New York
Times
“A maze of a novel that alternates between scenes of intense
introspection and scenes driven by dialogue… It is not, finally,
a novel of clearly delineated solutions but a novel of
conscience, fraught with ambivalence and ambiguity.” ―Joyce Carol
Oates, New Yorker
“A masterpiece, to stand with such earlier Price classics as
Clockers and Lush Life... [The Whites has] a compelling plot, yet
the real joy of the book lies page by page, line by line, in its
brilliant characterizations, rich detail, endless surprises,
crackling dialogue, absurdist humor and panoramic portrait of
endless crime breaking over the city like a tsunami.” ―The
Washington Post
“Swift and exciting... The Whites is written by the much-praised
novelist Richard Price, under the name Harry Brandt. Mr. Brandt,
it is good to discover, is just as fine a writer as Mr. Price.”
―The Wall Street Journal
“A bravura move.... The poet of the proletariat...paint[s] an
unparalleled portrait of modern urban life, with detail as rich
as Dickens, and a heart as deep as Dostoyevsky. In a less
refracted, distracted age, [Price] would be recognized as perhaps
the major novelist of our times.” ―San Francisco Chronicle
“Terrific... Here's the real magic trick: The Whites is a serious
book, with serious points to make, and at times it's almost
unbearably sad. But it's also, often, very funny and deeply
satisfying.” ―The Seattle Times
“Richard Price is indeed a master... The Whites is full of the
rich characters, spot-on dialogue, grim humor and distinctive
ins that animate his other novels, including Clockers and
Lush Life.... Price is a New York writer to the core; the raw
power of this great city seeps into the lives of his characters
as they struggle with grief, betrayal and shame.” ―The Houston
Chronicle
“Price enriches this story of a half-feral band of cops bonded by
vengeance with depth, melancholy, and those famously keen eyes
and ears.” ―New York Magazine
“Extraordinary... A riveting crime tale thoroughly steeped in
gritty cop irony, cop slang, cop attitudes and cop justice....
The Whites is especially good at capturing New York City's
peculiar brand of violent crime.” ―Newsday
“Seven years is too long for New Yorkers to wait for the next
book from Richard Price but he's finally here again with a
stunning NYPD novel…The Whites is grippingly immersive, its
characters and the world they move through, indelible.” ―New York
Daily News
“A gripping, gritty, Greek tragedy of cops, killers, and the
sometimes-blurry line between them… Price is one whale of a
storyteller by any name… The author skillfully manipulates [his]
multiple story lines for peak suspense, as his arresting
characters careen toward a devastating final reckoning.”
―Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“This is going to be a strong contender for best crime novel of
2015…. With one-of-a-kind characters and settings so real you can
smell them, Brandt plunges us into the chaos of domestic life,
the true agony of a parent's grief, the cost of secrets kept and
revealed. He does it all with indelible phrasing that captures
both the black humor of the on-the-job cop and the give-and-take
of longtime married couples. While the finely tuned story engine
accelerates, it's supercharged with complications…In the end, The
Whites isn't about cops and killers so much as it is about the
damage we all carry [and] the sins we've all committed.”
―Booklist (starred review)
“Fasten your seat belt… Old tragedies combine with fresh ones in
Brandt's steely-jawed, carefully constructed procedural. Few
crime novelists are as good at taut storytelling as Richard Price
… In the wake of rage and sorrow, ordinary people respond by
going crazy and screwing up. In this far-from-ordinary novel,
Price/Brandt explores the hows and whys.” ―Kirkus Reviews
“The Whites is the crime novel of the year--grim, gutsy, and
impossible to put down. I had to read the final 100 pages in a
single sitting. I began being fascinated, and ended being deeply
moved. Call him Price or Brandt, he knows everything about
life, and plenty about friendship: what your friends do for
you…and what they sometimes do to you.” ―Stephen King
“Whether you call it a crime novel or a mystery novel or a
giraffe with polka dots is largely irrelevant--The Whites is,
simply put, a great American novel.” ―Dennis Lehane
“This is high-octane literature, with the best of Richard Price
and his souped-up pseudonym Harry Brandt. Price/Brandt gets to
the heart of those stories that everyone else refuses to tell.
The Whites manages to patrol New York and deepen our sense of the
city and all its dark corners.” ―Colum McCann
“Richard Price isn't fooling anybody with this Harry Brandt
business; only he could have written The Whites. It has
everything that makes his novels so wonderful--the dark humor,
the intricate interleaving of character and plot, the deep
research into the science of the streets, the moral gravity and
the flawless, magical dialogue. Indeed the only credible thing to
be said about Harry Brandt is that he has written one of Richard
Price's best books yet.” ―Michael Chabon
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About the Author
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Richard Price is the author of several
novels--including Clockers and Lush Life--all of which have won
universal praise for their vividly etched portrayals of urban
America. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, the novelist
Lorraine Adams.
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