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George_Pelecanos: Well, the main thing is I've lived there for my whole life, which is 42 years. And I continue to live in a very mixed working class neighborhood. So this is not an archaeological thing for me; rather it's more a case of me being out on the street and listening and talking with my neighbors.
21 de abr. de 2022 · After this grand tour of American dysfunction, Simon and George Pelecanos — a crime novelist who wrote several episodes of The Wire and co-created several series with Simon — have returned to ...
25 de abr. de 2022 · George Pelecanos at home in Silver Spring. Photo by Joseph Tran. At age 11, George Pelecanos went to work, taking the bus from his home in Silver Spring to his father’s diner in downtown Washington, on 19th Street near M. “I worked with my dad my whole teen years,” he tells me.
29 de ago. de 2011 · Description. Crime fiction writer George Pelecanos introduces Spero Lucas, an anti-hero making his place in the world one battle at a time. Includes a bonus work of short fiction focusing on Spero’s early life. Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he returned home to Washington, D.C. after serving in Iraq, he has been doing special ...
George Pelecanos (Washington D. C., 1957) es uno de los más destacados escritores estadounidenses vivos dedicados a la novela policiaca. Antes de dedicarse a la escritura tuvo múltiples empleos: fue cocinero, lavaplatos, camarero y vendedor de zapatos.
George Pelecanos amerikansk författare född i östra Washington D.C i USA 1957. Innan han debuterade som författare 1992 var han bland annat verksam som diskare, kock, säljare och byggnadsarbetare. Han skriver hårdkokta kriminalromaner i samma noir-tradition som tidigare mästare som Raymond Chandler och Dashiell Hammett.
George Pelecanos: I was a movie freak originally and not much of a book person. That changed for me in college, but before that, I was deeply influenced by films. Going back to the 60s, the movies that left the most lasting impression on me were The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape (both from John Sturges), The Dirty Dozen (Aldrich), the Sergio Leone westerns, and Peckinpah's The Wild ...
