Bibliograph

Green sun, a novel, Kent Anderson

Type

Label

Green sun, a novel, Kent Anderson

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Green sun

Oclc number

990006678

Responsibility statement

Kent Anderson

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Oakland, California, 1983. Officer Hanson, a Vietnam veteran, has abandoned academia for the life-and-death clarity of police work, a way to live with the demons that followed him home from the war. He believes in becoming a part of the community he serves, choosing to live in the same town where he works. He forges a precarious friendship with Felix Maxwell, the drug king of East Oakland, based on their shared sense of fairness and honor. He falls in love with Libya the moment he sees her, a confident and outspoken black woman. He is befriended by Weegee, a streetwise eleven-year-old who is primed to become a dope dealer. Then an off-duty shooting forces Hanson to finally face who he is, and which side of the law he belongs on

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