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Owning Up by PELECANOS, GEORGE is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Owning Up about?

Four blistering novellas, drawn together by themes of strife, violence, and humanity; "Every time I read one of George Pelecanos's novels, I'm left a little awed."(Dennis Lehane) When the son of the Carusos is involved in a hold up, the family home comes under siege in the form of a no-knock warrant. Months after the cops destroyed their home, the Carusos struggle to return to normal. Elsewhere, two former inmates reunite by chance on the set of a TV production. Both have found their way on the straight and narrow path, that is, until one sees the potential for an easy grift. A teenage boy must step into the man he'd like to be as a hostage crisis grips his hometown. A woman adrift meets a man tied to her grandmother's past, an encounter that awakens her to a bloody history that undergirds the place she grew up. Pelecanos' portraits are characterized by shades of grey, resisting the mold of heroes and villains,...

Who reads Owning Up?

Author

PELECANOS, GEORGE

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Published

2024

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Contemporary Fiction, Fiction