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Blue Blood by Edward Conlon (2005, Trade Paperback)
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Blue Blood by Edward Conlon (2005, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-101594480737
ISBN-139781594480737
eBay Product ID (ePID)43390469
Product Key Features
Book TitleBlue Blood
Number of Pages576 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
TopicParenting / General, Personal Memoirs, Law Enforcement
GenreFamily & Relationships, Political Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorEdward Conlon
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight21 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-066788
ReviewsThis book, already being hailed as a masterpiece of the genre, may be the read of the decade. (Portland Oregonian) Writing that combines the efficiency of a police officer with the melancholy of a street poet. (Details) Short of getting recruited or mugged, you won't find a more up-close look at the NYPD than this...memoir. (People) Splendid. A book that resonates with the shattering ring of truth. (Ed McBain, Entertainment Weekly), "[A] sprawling, wry, opinionated, beautifully written memoir." - The New York Times "He illuminates every aspect of police work with wisdom and wry humour... Blue Blood is a memoir that casts back to the earliest days of New York's police. It is also a family history, written with love and esteem..." - The Telegraph "A sprawling, loose-limbed collection of funny and harrowing on-the-clock anecdotes, broken up by numerous digressions into family and institutional history..." - AV Club, "[A] sprawling, wry, opinionated, beautifully written memoir." - The New York Times "He illuminates every aspect of police work with wisdom and wry humour... Blue Blood is a memoir that casts back to the earliest days of New York's police. It is also a family history, written with love and esteem..." - The Telegraph "A sprawling, loose-limbed collection of funny and harrowing on-the-clock anecdotes, broken up by numerous digressions into family and institutional history..." - AV Club, This book, already being hailed as a masterpiece of the genre, may be the read of the decade. ( Portland Oregonian ) Writing that combines the efficiency of a police officer with the melancholy of a street poet. ( Details ) Short of getting recruited or mugged, you won't find a more up-close look at the NYPD than this...memoir. ( People ) Splendid. A book that resonates with the shattering ring of truth. (Ed McBain, Entertainment Weekly )
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Grade ToUP
Dewey Decimal363.2/092 B
Synopsis"A great book... with the testimonial force equal to that of Michael Herr's Dispatches ."-- Time Edward Conlon's Blue Blood is an ambitious and extraordinary work of nonfiction about what it means to protect, to serve, and to defend among the ranks of New York's finest. Told by a fourth generation NYPD, this is an anecdotal history of New York as experienced through its police force, and depicts a portrait of the teeming street life of the city in all its horror and splendor. It is a story about police politics, fathers and sons, partners who become brothers, old ghosts and undying legacies. Conlon joined the NYPD during the Giuliani administration, when New York City saw its crime rate plummet but also witnessed events that would alter the city, its inhabitants, and its police force forever: polarizing racial cases, the proliferation of the drug trade, and the events of September 11, 2001, and its aftermath. Conlon captures the detail of the landscape, the ironies and rhythms of natural speech, the tragic and the marvelous, firsthand, day after day. A New York Times Notable Book and Finalist for The National Book Criticics Circle Award for Nonfiction.
LC Classification NumberHV7911.C66A3 2004
