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‘Powerful and revealing … it shows us the plight of urban America honestly and without condescending to those trapped on its mean streets. I defy you to read about them and not be moved.’

WASHINGTON POST

‘A brave, unblinkered and heartbreaking look at the residents of a few blocks of West Baltimore’s ghetto … So far above most reporting on the underclass as to demand attention.’

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

‘The Corner is an intimate, intense dispatch from the broken heart of urban America. It is impossible to read these pages and not feel stunned at the high price, in human potential, in thwarted aspirations, that simple survival on the streets of West Baltimore demands of its citizens. An important document, as devastating as it is lucid.’

RICHARD PRICE, author OF CLOCKERS

‘A triumph.’

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

‘This harrowing work of journalism should come with a label: Do not read unless you’re ready to be shaken to your soul … Stick with it, and the reward is a deepened understanding of America’s complex, intractable drug culture, and, indeed, of human nature.’

PEOPLE

‘A complex and beautifully written narrative … A timely and important report from the front.’

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

‘A bracing read.’

ECONOMIST

‘A devastating account of the almost daily hardening of children’s hearts and hopes … This is another world.’

LOS ANGELES TIMES

‘Because the authors have been able to humanise their subjects without romanticising them or making heroes out of them, The Corner offers rare insight into not only one aspect of inner-city culture, but also into the utter failure of so much public policy at all levels.’

NEWSDAY