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The Man Who Came Uptown. The Man Who Came Uptown is a 2018 novel by George Pelecanos – his twenty-first – about Michael Hudson, a man who after being released from incarceration struggles with doing the right thing despite it not being the easiest; the novel also addresses Pelecanos's repeated theme of the "redemptive power of books". [1]
Sep 4, 2018 · George P. Pelecanos. 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.
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Sep 5, 2018 · September 5, 2018. The Man Who Came Uptown by George Pelecanos brings Washington, D.C., to life in a high-stakes story of tough choices, where an ex-offender must choose between the man who got him out and the woman who showed him another path. The king of D.C. crime, George Pelecanos, is back with a standalone wonder in the vein of The Way ...
Aug 30, 2018 · Like most of George Pelecanos' 20 novels, The Man Who Came Uptown (Little, Brown, $27) is a crime story, stocked with witty lowlifes, poor decisions, razor-sharp dialogue and propulsive plotting ...
From the bestselling and Emmy-nominated writer behind HBO's We Own This City: a "gripping, surprisingly soulful" mystery about an ex-offender who must choose between the man who got him out and the woman who showed him another path (Entertainment Weekly).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 ...
Sep 4, 2018 · Phil Ornazian is an investigator who works for Matthew Mirapaul, his old friend and Michael’s lawyer. Anna Kaplan Byrne is the prison librarian who supplies Michael with the novels that make him feel, for as long as he’s reading, that “he was not locked up. He was free.”. The prison setting makes it clear who the good guys and the bad ...
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Aug 23, 2018 · The crime novelist and screenwriter George Pelecanos, whose new book is “The Man Who Came Uptown,” would want Gladys Knight to write his life story: “Music heads will get that one.”
