The Breaks

Richard Price

Simon and Schuster, 1983 - Fiction - 446 pages

College graduate Peter is rejected by the law school of his choice, and during his year of working to enhance his credentials he utterly fouls every hope of law school, but heads back for Collegetown anyway.

Contents

• Section 1: 29
• Section 2: 31
• Section 3: 49

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: The Breaks; Penguin contemporary American fiction series
• Author: Richard Price
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 1983
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 12, 2008
• ISBN: 0671452363, 9780671452360
• Length: 446 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General