Street Sweeper [Paperback]

Ronin Ro (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 150 pages
• Publisher: Syndicate Media Group (November 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1930306008
• ISBN-13: 978-1930306004
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,876,749 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

After penning a column for Dance Music Report magazine, Ronin Ro began a groundbreaking run in The Source. From here, Ro contributed to SPIN, Rolling Stone, VIBE, Rap Pages, XXL, Vanity Fair, Playboy, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, and more. To date, Ro has authored eight Books, including the classic Have Gun Will Travel, the definitive Jack Kirby bio Tales to Astonish, Raising Hell (containing original interviews with Run-D.M.C. and others), Dr. Dre: The Biography, the controversial novella Street Sweeper (whose hero, Jerome Usher, reputedly inspired a similar hero in the motion picture Man on Fire) and the upcoming Prince: Inside the Music and the Masks. Currently in New York City, known for epic, classically-structured works, the influential Author is currently at work on two nonfiction projects.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Exciting Read, November 27, 2003

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This review is from: Street Sweeper (Paperback)

Street Sweeper is Ronin Ro's novel about a killer for hire who undergoes a change of heart. Underneath this tale Ro shows the reader that, like the killer, a confused young guy named Jerome Usher (who starts out enjoying the so-called finer things in life), it's better to put people over possessions. Usher, as a character, is fascinating and unpredictable. If he isn't arguing over money, he's going through some of the best action scenes since the earliest Hong Kong films with Chow Yun Fat (which, along with Graham Greene's "A Gun For Sale") seem to be a major influence. If Jerome isn't cracking jokes, he's giving advice to a down and out single mom defeated by life. The only unfortunate thing about Street Sweeper was that its publisher had some cockamamie scheme to release it only to record shops. A reprinting is in order, and this time put it in bookstores! Street Sweeper is a classic work that advances noir writing way past the Elmore Leonard and Walter Mosley clones.