Street

By Jack Cady

Book Overview

The Pacific Northwest is no stranger to serial killers, and when bodies start to pile up in Seattle and the police have no clue, it falls to the denizens of the streets of Seattle to bring this new... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312114559
• ISBN13: 9780312114558
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Quirky and beautiful

Street is a prose poem about a disparate group of homeless, including a televsion actor, an ex-nun, a sword wielding son of Virginia aristocrats, a Vietnam vet whose only public pronouncements are "Symptomatic Nerve Gas!" and "Felony Assualt!", and a poet who band together to battle a mass murderer. Corpses decorated with black ribbons have been turning up all over Seattle. Until now, it has been a police matter. The unlikely quintet, galvanized by the disappearance of a young girl they know, discern the murderer's identity and attempt to bring him to heel, triggering a nerve jangling game of cat and mouse. The outcome remains uncertain until the final page. Cady's language is quirky and beautiful, his characters vivid and well-drawn. The Street of the title comes to life within these pages, as much a character as any of the colorful human protagonists. If you've never read Cady before, this is a good one to start with, virtually ensuring that you'll go on to sample the rest of his outstanding work.