Isbn: 9780399900839 - title: line by line (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG. First Edition. owner's bookplate.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 192 pp. ; 24 cm. ; [1st edition] ; ISBN: 0399900837; 9780399900839 LCCN: 80-39822 ; OCLC: 7171975 ; author's first novel ; inscription on endpapers ; small label smudge on dust jacket ; "Beth Ross--the dirty-talking suburban teenager who's the ludicrously inconsistent narrator here--moves to Manhattan and promptly falls for Jordan Turner, a glamorous, light-skinned black neighbor.unbeknownst to Beth, Jordan is an ex-con/drug-dealer/hoodlum whose boss demands that Beth be recruited for prostitution and odd jobs. And, though warned against Jordan by her friend Shelley, infatuated Beth finds herself helping Jordan to track down a sleazy jeweler who owes the hoods money .after which Jordan shows his real self by beating Beth, humiliating her, and threatening her with death unless she works for the gang. Beth goes to the cops--"-Kirkus reports ; dust jacket has nicks at top ; FINE/VG. Book.…