Praise for The Corner:
"The Corner is an intimate, intense dispatch from the broken heart
of urban America. It is impossible to read these pages and not feel
stunned at the high price, in human potential, in thwarted
aspirations, that simple survival on the streets of West Baltimore
demands of its citizens. An important document, as devastating as
it is lucid."
--Richard Price, author of Clockers
"The Corner is a remarkable book--very tough, very demanding, very
rewarding. Some of it is brutal and all of it is heartbreaking. As
a reporter, I can only stand back and admire David Simon and Edward
Burns for an amazing piece of reportage. To be there for an entire
year, to make sense of random events and a list of characters long
enough to make Charles Dickens envious, and to write
coherently--it's a breathtaking achievement. And they manage to
make West Baltimore as much a character as any of the
flesh-and-blood people in the book."
--Glenn Frankel, author of Beyond the Promised Land
"If you want to understand street-corner life in the inner city,
you should read The Corner, an amazingly intimate, detailed work of
reporting that makes human and vivid a world that outsiders
ordinarily are forced to learn about through statistics, sound
bites, and stereotypes."
--Nicholas Lemann, author of The Promised Land
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