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Blauner is a contributing editor for new york magazine covering crime and politics, and that experience surfaces brightly in his pages trim prose and street savvy, as does the half year he reportedly spent at the new. The story is terryfying and doesnt let go of you for a second. Originally published in 1991, this novel won an edgar and was named a nyt international book of the year. Welcome to really slow motion music official youtube channel. He is best know for his new york times bestselling novel, the. Malcolm gladwell says the school shooting epidemic is like a slow moving riot. On an urban battleground dangerously divided along racial lines, p.

Apr 12, 2020 this book about a woman who goes missing and then returns two years later somehow changedsuper creeped me out. But what hasnt changed is the hard choice between the temptation of crime. It was released on epitaph records on june 6, 2000. After graduating from wesleyan university he took a staff job at new york magazine, where he found the inspiration for his first book, the edgar awardwinning slow motion r. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new. He used those experiences as research for his first novel slow motion riot. It was about petty crime by a small gang of thugs in new york city, but it wasnt well written and it was extremely slow moving, the title should have been slow motion crime novel that never gets anywhere. The two protagonistsyoung probation officer steve baum, fighting sometimes successfully new york citys bureaucracy on behalf of his clients, and 18yearold crackhead darryl king, a compassionless drug dealerare on a collision course.

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