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	Howard Street Nathan Heard   Originally published in 1968, this is the searingly powerful first novel written inside Trenton State Penitentiary and based on the authentic first-hand Newark street experiences of one of the most accomplished living African-American writers. Howard Street is a uniquely powerful combination of the hard-earned insight into the ghetto world of pimps, 'hos, junkies, dope dealers, winos, corrupt cops, and young hoodlums of such "black experience" legends as Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim, with the disciplined and inspired pulp prose of Jim Thompson, Charles Willeford or Chester Himes.   ISBN 1-878923-01-3 trade paper 330 pp., illustrated, $14.95 Currently out of stock
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	Reviews:   "A great American novel." – i.d.   "In Howard Street there were indications of a great author who could portray such profound pathos in his characters that a reader sensed the reincarnation of Richard Wright and a nightmarish William Faulkner of the American ghetto." – Claude Brown, author of Manchild in the Promised Land   "He is a writer, no question about that. An almost frightening one–his hatred and violence are so intense." – Henry Miller   top of page