{"product_id":"providence","title":"Providence","description":"\u003ch3 class=\"AllEditionsItem-workTitle\"\u003eProvidence\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"AllEditionsItem-workAuthor\"\u003eBy\u003cspan\u003e  Geoffrey Wolff\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca itemprop=\"author\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thriftbooks.com\/a\/geoffrey-wolff\/219860\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"AllEditionsItem-workAuthor\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"AllEditionsItem-details\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"AllEditionsItem-overview-container\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003eEdition Description\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"AllEditionsItem-overview\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAttorney Adam Dwyer has six months to live. Carla Dwyer has to try to relax. Lieutenant Tom Cocoran has twenty years on the force. Baby and Skippy have a couple of hours to kill. All five of these people will never be the same after a series of violent events, hilarious as they are tragic, upset the equilibrium of life in a small, strange city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eBetween Boston and New York City lies Providence, Rhode Island. Long considered one of the most corrupt cities in the country, it was often difficult to discern who was more corrupt, the mafia bosses or the suits at city hall. But as the story begins, it was definitely a gangland figure (known as \"The Moron\") whose slashed, bullet-ridden body Lieutenant Cocoran fished from the Providence River.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvidence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a fast-paced black comedy of parallel lives in the small East Coast port city. Adam Dwyer is a criminal lawyer dying of leukemia. He and his wife, Clara, receive another blow when their home is robbed by two young thugs, Skippy and Baby. Tom Corcoran, the officer assigned to the case, becomes involved with Skippy's waitress, Lisa.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLong out of print, this\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling novel is a raucous gallery of grotesques, a litany of sex, violence, crime, and corruption cast against a precisely drawn portrait of Providence, from the streets of Federal Hill (home of the city's mafiosi) to the fashionable upper East Side (rife with homes ripe for robbing).\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e This Nonpareil edition includes a new afterword by acclaimed television and film writer Ian Maxtone-Graham.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"AllEditionsItem-details\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"AllEditionsItem-details-title\"\u003eEdition Details\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"AllEditionsItem-details-item\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"AllEditionsItem-details-item-details\"\u003eFormat: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"AllEditionsItem-details-item-details\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"AllEditionsItem-details-item\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"AllEditionsItem-details-item-details\"\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"AllEditionsItem-details-item-details\"\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"AllEditionsItem-details-item\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"AllEditionsItem-details-item-details\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"El Paso's Thrift Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713853395021,"sku":null,"price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/3854\/8813\/files\/Providence.jpg?v=1772077020","url":"https:\/\/eptbookstore.com\/products\/providence","provider":"El Paso's Thrift Bookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}