Sol Yurick
Paperback | Pages: 212 pages Rating: 3.44 | 1234 Users | 158 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Warriors |
| ISBN: | 0802139922 (ISBN13: 9780802139924) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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The basis for the cult-classic film The Warriors chronicles one New York City gang's nocturnal journey through the seedy, dangerous subways and city streets of the 1960s. Every gang in the city meets on a sweltering July 4 night in a Bronx park for a peace rally. The crowd of miscreants turns violent after a prominent gang leader is killed and chaos prevails over the attempt at order. The Warriors follows the Dominators making their way back to their home territory without being killed. The police are prowling the city in search of anyone involved in the mayhem. An exhilarating novel that examines New York City teenagers, left behind by society, who form identity and personal strength through their affiliation with their "family," The Warriors weaves together social commentary with ancient legends for a classic coming-of-age tale. This edition includes a new introduction by the author.Declare Out Of Books The Warriors
| Title | : | The Warriors |
| Author | : | Sol Yurick |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 212 pages |
| Published | : | April 7th 2003 by Grove Press (first published 1965) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Crime. New York. Adventure |
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Ratings: 3.44 From 1234 Users | 158 ReviewsCriticize Out Of Books The Warriors
This is the basis of the movie of the same name, a film so wildly popular that it pushed STAR WARS out of the #1 spot. The book is a lot grittier and less idealistic than the movie version of the story; the characters are far less engaging and easier to detest. The reason for the summit meeting of New York City gangs was so buried under youthful masculine posturing that if I hadn't seen the movie, I wouldn't have known why the Coney Island Dominators went to the Bronx in the first place, butOn a purely conceptual level I love this novel. As a lifelong fan of Greek mythology (from childhood) and Greek history and philosophy (from early twenties to this moment though my actual understanding of it...talk to me in a few years) this story's conceit, that of a 1960's African-American and Hispanic street gang fighting their way to Coney Island over the course of a single night (and all based loosely on Xenaphon's Anabasis) is brilliant. Sol Yurick captures the (apparently) pre-Giuliani
i learned dat dis book waz like a bigggg waste of my lyfe and tyme
The genre of this book is a fiction novel mixed with adventure. It is a very interesting book that makes you want to keep on reading. I chose this book because I found the cover very legit because of the way the Coney Island Denominators looked. I kind of skimmed through it and saw that it was about gangs and street fights which caught my attention. This book is very twisted (in a good way) because it has a bit of everything. This is a story about a gang, the Coney Island Denominators trying to
Can you dig it? No, no I can't.Seen the movie twice, don't remember much, but I found the movie better than the book. This wasn't a bad book, it's actually well written, just didn't get my attention. I stupidly went in thinking a movie and a book are similar. I did like Yuricks introduction, it made me appreciate the behind the scenes better. This book does have a purpose bringing awareness to gangs and gang violence. What I didn't realize wa this is based on a Greek book and has some
The genre of this book is a fiction novel mixed with adventure. It is a very interesting book that makes you want to keep on reading. I chose this book because I found the cover very legit because of the way the Coney Island Denominators looked. I kind of skimmed through it and saw that it was about gangs and street fights which caught my attention. This book is very twisted (in a good way) because it has a bit of everything. This is a story about a gang, the Coney Island Denominators trying to
Having seen the bizzare 70's film probably a dozen times as a teenager, I thought I'd give the book a read. Unfortunately, I found the foreword by the author the best part about the book. The author sought to take a little-known Greek story called the Anabasis, an epic about an army's long retreat through hostile lands, and recast the epic in a hellish, gang-ruled New York. The book traces the Dominators' long flight from a violent gang "summit" downtown back to their turf in Coney Island.
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