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George Pelecanos: The Man Who Came Uptown

The Ivy Bookshop

In bestselling and Emmy-nominated writer George Pelecanos’ thrilling new novel, an ex-con must choose between the man who got him out and the woman who showed him another path.

Michael Hudson spends the long days in prison devouring books given to him by the prison’s librarian, a young woman named Anna, who develops a soft spot for her best student. Anna keeps passing Michael books until one day he disappears, suddenly released after a private detective manipulated a witness in Michael’s trial.

Outside, Michael encounters a Washington, D.C., that has changed a lot during his time locked up. Once shady storefronts are now trendy beer gardens and flower shops. But what hasn’t changed is the hard choice between the temptation of crime and doing what’s right. Trying to balance his new job, his love of reading, and the debt he owes to the man who got him released, Michael struggles to figure out his place in this new world before he loses control. Smart and fast-paced, The Man Who Came Uptown brings Washington, D.C., to life in a high-stakes story of tough choices.

George Pelecanos was born in Washington, D.C., in 1957.  He worked as a line cook, dishwasher, bartender, and shoe salesman before publishing his first novel in 1992. Pelecanos is the author of eighteen novels set in and around Washington, D.C.: A Firing Offense, Nick's Trip, Shoedog, Down By the River Where the Dead Men Go, The Big Blowdown, King Suckerman, The Sweet Forever, Shame the Devil, Right as Rain, Hell to Pay, Soul Circus, Hard Revolution, Drama City, The Night Gardener, The Turnaround, The Way Home, The Cut, and What It Was.


In addition, Pelecanos is an award-winning essayist who has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, GQ, Uncut, Mojo, and numerous other publications.  Esquire called him "the poet laureate of the D.C. crime world."  In Entertainment Weekly, Stephen King wrote that Pelecanos is "perhaps the greatest living American crime writer."  Pelecanos would like to note that Mr. King used the qualifier "perhaps."  

 

 

 

 

 

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TIME & DATE
Saturday, September 8, 2018 - 6:00pm

LOCATION

The Ivy Bookshop
6080 Falls Road
Baltimore, MD 21209


by Dr. Radut