Set in the melting pot of New York's Lower East Side, this powerful first novel delineates the urban frontiers that bend the shape of the American dream beyond recognition.
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Set in the melting pot of New York's Lower East Side, this powerful first novel delineates the urban frontiers that bend the shape of the American dream beyond recognition.
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Add this copy of Kill the Poor to cart. $1.99, good condition, Sold by Gladewater Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gladewater, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Atlantic Monthly Press.
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Good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 295 p. Audience: General/trade. a few library stamps and markings in front of book; text block looks neat and clean, very tight
Add this copy of Kill the Poor to cart. $6.00, very good condition, Sold by Dunaway Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Saint Louis, MO, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Atlantic Monthly Pr.
Add this copy of Kill the Poor to cart. $7.99, good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Atlantic Monthly Press.
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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Add this copy of Kill the Poor to cart. $9.00, very good condition, Sold by ZENO'S rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Atlantic Monthly Press.
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New York. 1988. Atlantic Monthly Press. 1st Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. 0871132605. 295 pages. paperback. Cover design by Lorraine Louie. Cover photograph by Nancy Crampton. keywords: Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-As incendiary as it is ultimately, tragically humane, KILL THE POOR is about accommodation, assimilation, and the urban nightmare that is fully capable of bending the American dream beyond recognition. Jo-Jo Peltz makes his living selling papers at his family's Times Square newsstand. Returning from the long road of hard drugs and deep confusion, desperate for a place to live, he and his pregnant wife end up with a piece of a homesteading project. on the Lower East Side, on the same block where his grandparents first lived when they immigrated to America in 1903. It's not a foreign planet to Jo-Jo: he used to buy his dope here, run the mean streets, even attend the neighborhood synagogue when he was a boy, but the terms of the once fabled melting pot have been changed by the faces and language of a new immigrant people. With Jo-Jo we contend with gentrifiers, homeboys, dealers, and police; with family, friends, and neighborhood people simply bent on staying alive in an urban frontier where killing poverty pits each camp against all the others. And in his attempt to make a home for himself, his wife, and their newborn daughter, Jo-Jo finally confronts the man who is both his rival and his double-a conflict that relentlessly leads to arson and death. inventory #26511.
Add this copy of Kill the Poor to cart. $28.32, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Atlantic Monthly Pr.