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      Homeboy

      by Seth Morgan
      Published
      Aug 1990
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      390
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      Seth Morgan's frenzied, addictive walk on the wild side of 1980s San Francisco

      When strip-joint barker Joe Speaker unwittingly steals a sixty-nine-carat blue diamond, he becomes enmeshed in a blackmail-and-murder conspiracy that begins with the savage slaying of high-priced call girl Gloria Monday. Suddenly Joe's a wanted man. Hunted by a murderous pimp known as Baby Jewels Moses and a relentless homicide cop named Tarzon, Joe ends up taking the rap and getting sentenced to three years. But it's in prison that the real trouble begins.
       
      An adrenaline-pumped, hallucinogenic descent into the lower depths, Homeboy is a tough, eye-opening look at San Francisco during the AIDS epidemic. Part memoir and part richly conceived work of imagination, this gritty, rambunctious novel reads like pure poetry and celebrates an uncommon talent at the height of his storytelling powers.

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      May 1991 Vintage ISBN13 9780679733959 ISBN10 0679733957
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      First Edition Aug 1990 Ebury Publishing (UK) ISBN13 9780701136642 ISBN10 0701136642
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      May 1990 Random House ISBN13 9780394575773 ISBN10 0394575776
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      Oct 1992 Random House ISBN13 9780517091128 ISBN10 0517091127
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      May 2015 Open Road Publishing ISBN13 9781504005845 ISBN10 1504005848
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      Oct 2015 Audible Studios ISBN10 B016J9W1I4
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