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La mattina del 29 aprile del 1992 si conclude uno dei processi più celebri della storia americana: il tribunale di Los Angeles assolve i quattro poliziotti coinvolti nel pestaggio di Rodney King, un tassista nero che non si era fermato al loro ordine. Meno di due ore dopo il verdetto, la città di Los Angeles, una polveriera di tensioni razziali, esplode in una violenza inaudita: per sei interminabili giorni si scatena l’inferno, intere zone della città vanno a fuoco e vengono abbandonate a se stesse dalle forze dell’ordine. Per le gang criminali è l’occasione per regolare vecchi conti in sospeso, lasciando sul campo decine di morti. Questo è il romanzo di quelle giornate. Un romanzo incendiario e devastante come la rivolta che racconta.
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- ISBN: 8823511631
- Casa Editrice: Guanda
- Pagine: 416
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…this whole entire scene says the same to me as it says to every other knucklehead who ever thought bad thoughts across this whole city: now’s your fucking day, homie. Felicdades, you won the lottery! Go out there and get wild, it says. Come and take what you can, it says. If you’re bad enough, i Leggi tutto
You grow up in the same neighborhood as me, one with a gun store that sells single bullets for twenty-five cents to anybody with bad thoughts and a quarter, then you might end up the same way. this book is like law and order: street justice (which is a show i would totally watch please) its focus is o Leggi tutto
I'd rate this 4.5, maybe 4.75 stars. I remember the beating of Rodney King, but what I remember more than that was the outrage and violence which exploded in Los Angeles in April of 1992, when three of the four white policemen accused of the beating were completely acquitted, while no verdict was rea Leggi tutto
Ryan Gattisin "Vihan kadut" (Like, 2015) tuli viimein luettua, ja se osoittautui yhdeksi tämän vuoden väkevimmistä lukukokemuksista. Los Angelesin rotumellakat leimahtivat liekkiin vuonna 1992, kun oikeus vapautti Rodney King -nimisen mustan miehen pahoinpitelyyn syyllistyneet poliisit. Seurauksena k Leggi tutto
This was a very tricky book for me to review. On the one hand I think its an important and honest exploration into the mentality behind city riots; what sparks them, why they grow out of control and how people link their experiences to the bigger picture. What I Liked: Although I was too young to rem Leggi tutto
Set against the backdrop of the 1992 LA riots, All Involved begins with a shocking act of violence. Ernesto, an innocent brother of two Chicano gang members is brutally murdered on his way home from work. The ensuing story of revenge is told via a series of interlinked chapters by a wide variety of
This book should be a crime classic -- one of those Homicide or Executioner's Song bits of brutal gold that illuminate violence at its barest/most desperate, but also humanize its reverberations. David Mitchell blurbed this one on its back jacket as being "superlative." That it is. One of the easies Leggi tutto
i was college age living in san francisco when the rodney king riots happened. i lived not far from union square where most of the rioting took place. it was a terrible time and the chaos was absolute. this book attempts to give the reader a portrait of life in the city of los angeles (mostly south
Set in L.A. following the 1992 Rodney King verdict,t there were six days of violent, fiery riots, the story reveals the tapestry of people from all sorts of perspectives. When the mayhem of the riots overwhelmed and law enforcement and fire fighters efforts, gangs (and others) saw it as on open invi Leggi tutto
All Involved starts on the first day of the 1992 LA riots, but not with anything apparently related to Rodney King. Instead it begins with the murder of Ernesto, an innocent victim connected to a gang feud purely through blood. His death then sets in motion a chain of events with the chaos caused by t Leggi tutto