This is going to be a long post (I think I kept it at least slightly shorter than Clockers itself), but that’s because there’s a lot to unpack here out of all of Richard Price’s works, this one casts the longest shadow.Īt the time of Clockers‘ publication, it was a big deal that Price was putting out a novel at all. Instead, he released Clockers, the novel that would come to be regarded as arguably the best work of his career. He could’ve laid down his pen and settled into a professorship somewhere, or even coasted on his reputation while churning out middling work, and no one would’ve been able to say he hadn’t had a hell of a run. If Richard Price had retired in 1992 he would have already been leaving behind an impressive body of work: Four critically acclaimed novels, an Oscar nomination for his screenwriting, a #1 box office hit, even a credit on a Michael Jackson music video.
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