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Seth Morgan

    Seth Morgan was an American novelist whose sole published work, Homeboy, offers a raw depiction of life among drug addicts and convicts. Morgan drew heavily on his own experiences, including time spent incarcerated and working in strip clubs, to craft a narrative marked by authenticity and grim reality. His style is characterized as intense and unsparing, reflecting the harshness of the themes he explores. Morgan is recognized as a significant influence on contemporary writers who delve into similar subject matter.

    Seth Morgan
    Našinec
    Homeboy
    • Morganovi hrdinové žijí své životy ve světě natolik tvrdém, bezohledném a hrůzostrašném, že pravda a lež, zločin a trest, spravedlnost a bezpráví ztrácejí svůj původní význam a stávají se jakousi nedobrovolnou karikaturou sebe sama.

      Našinec1997
      4.3
    • Homeboy

      A Novel

      • 430 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      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.

      Homeboy1991
      4.2