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Product Identifiers

PublisherSt. Martin's Press

ISBN-101250102618

ISBN-139781250102614

eBay Product ID (ePID)219218410

Product Key Features

Book TitleDiamonds and Pearl

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2016

TopicUrban, African American / General, African American / Urban

GenreFiction

AuthorK'wan

Book SeriesA Diamonds Novel Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight12.3 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2016-021589

Reviews"Top-notch street lit...one of the top urban fiction novels of the year." - Library Journal Starred Review on Diamonds and Pearl, ...the big draw draw here is the electric prose, which is imbued with profane, comic lyricism. - Publishers Weekly on HOOD RAT A street lit version of The Godfather ...HOODLUM does what literature should do. It shows us that writing really matters. - Library Journal on Hoodlum One of the hip-hop fiction's hottest authors. . .fans will appreciate many of the qualities that make K'wan a writer to check for: gritty settings, memorable dialogue and authentic action. - KING magazine on Street Dreams

Series Volume Number1

SynopsisFrom # 1 Essence best-selling Crime Novelist K'Wan comes a tale of forbidden love, high stakes murder and the robbery gone bad that set it all in motion, Diamonds and Pearl. They say that good girls like bad boys, and this was especially true for Pearl Stone. A child born of privilege to a drug baron and reputed killer known in the streets as Big Stone. Although the flashy, fast-paced nature of the streets calls to Pearl, she's been brought up to look but not touch. But when a young hustler named Diamonds crawls up from the swamps of Louisiana and sets up shop in New York City, everything Pearl was taught flies out the window. Raised in the wild and schooled on the mean streets of New Orleans, Diamonds is no stranger to hard times and is willing to do whatever it takes to stay above the poverty line, including kill. When a robbery turned mass murder goes wrong, Diamonds is forced to flee New Orleans and lands in New York where he meets Pearl, and for the first time finds something he craves more than wealth and power...love. As the stakes get higher, Diamonds has to push away his past if he's to grab hold of his future--but by doing so, will he show Pearl that all that glitters isn't gold?

LC Classification NumberPS3606.O96D53 2016