Richard Price Reads: The Wanderers, The Breaks

About this book

Richard Price considers himself to be a loving but always accurate archivist of working-class urban America. He wrote of the consequences of family love and misdirected ties in Bloodbrothers, of the anxiety and loneliness that comes from living by a code of sexual stereotypes in Ladies Man, and of the tragedy of inner-city drug use in Clockers. All 3 of these novels have been made into films, as has Price's first, the cult classic The Wanderers, a funny, impressionistic look at high school life in the Bronx. In this provocative collection, Price gives a hilarious deadpan reading of the Ducky Boy episode from The Wanderers, and also performs the opening scene from The Breaks.