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By George Pelecanos
From "the poet laureate of the D.C. crime world" ("Esquire") comes this strong early novel, now to be had in paperback for the 1st time--the noirish tale of ways a Washington, D.C., liquor shop heist indicates a drifter named Constantine what it skill to be a shoedog. Martin's Press.
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It’s not even under glass or behind ropes. It’s all just amazingly here. Until I saw some of it broken, I hadn’t really understood. I’m here, you know? And this is all real, real enough that if you bump into it something could break. ” She was beatific with the memory. Then she grinned and snapped out of it. ” she said. I smiled back. I just stretched my face and held it tight. I was remembering something broken too. I never should have closed my eyes. ” she asked. ” I didn’t answer right away.
That’s all. I said to her, “I had a baby dress like this. ” I said it in a nice voice, and in a complimentary way. ” which was a reasonable question, except that the way she asked it was like a wild animal sniffing the air. She was looking for a fight immediately. ” “It looks like a Christmas picture,” I described, trying to be helpful. “You’re sitting on a couch, holding an ornament, I think. ” Gretchen pressed her lips together, then squeezed out the words: “I remember that. I wore a plain purple dress.
You’d need something on the scale of a meteor and total climate change. That kind of money is at least as big as a dinosaur. “It was the whole Silicon Valley bubble. My dad’s an engineer, and his company got bought by Racer. It was this huge deal. We moved up to Livermore, which is this mini wine country—no way near Napa or even Sonoma, but cute, and lots of new housing. We had a view of grapes through huge windows. There were Internet plugs in, like, every room. And we got it on a mortgage, not because we needed one, but because the rate on the mortgage cost us less than what we were making by keeping the money in stock.