3 Screenplays

Richard Price

Houghton Mifflin, 1993 - Fiction - 363 pages

Night and the city: Harry Fabian is a crooked lawyer running cons all over New York City. After he fails at a boxing scam, he finds himself in dire financial straits and takes a loan from a merciless moneylender named Mr. Peck. When he needs help paying Peck back, Harry turns to Helen, a married waitress he is sleeping with. He begins to plot one last con -- that double-crosses many of his allies. With no friends left around town, Harry's luck goes from bad to worse.

Contents

• Section 1: 3
• Section 2: 7
• Section 3: 13

About the author

Author and screenwriter Richard Price was born in the Bronx, New York on October 12, 1949. He received a BS degree from Cornell University, an MFA from Columbia University, and a Mirillees Fellowship in fiction at Stanford University. His first novel, The Wanderers, was published in 1974 and was adapted into a film by director Philip Kaufman in 1979. His novel Clockers was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was made into a movie by Spike Lee in 1994. His screenwriting credits include The Color of Money (1986), Sea of Love (1989), Mad Dog and Glory (1992), and Ransom (1996). Price won several awards for his writing on the television series The Wire. He has written for numerous publications including The New York Times, Esquire Magazine, the Village Voice, and Rolling Stone. In 1999, he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. In 2015, Price published his bestselling novel, The Whites, under the pseudonym Harry Brandt.

Bibliographic information

• Title: 3 Screenplays
• Author: Richard Price
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1993
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Feb 26, 2008
• ISBN: 0395669243, 9780395669242
• Length: 363 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Performing Arts / Film / Guides & Reviews; Performing Arts / Film / Screenwriting; Performing Arts / Screenplays; Poetry / General