Kill the Poor

By Joel Rose

Set in the melting pot of New York's Lower East Side, this powerful first novel delineates the urban frontiers that bend the shape of the American dream beyond recognition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871132605
• ISBN13: 9780871132604
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Going to be a Great Movie

I just finished working on a feature film based on this novel. It was a great experience. After I read the script, I read the book. Both are powerful, emotional, truthful and moving. The movie is going to be a wonderful piece of work. The book already is.

Life struggles come to life

I really like this book. It's not like any other book I ever read. It is compelling all the way through. The title comes from a Dead Kennedy's song, and I didn't know what to expect when my friend gave it to me and said I had to read it, but it gets you into the struggle and lives of regular people on the lower edge of society who don't have much money or power or anything. It's up to the minute in that way, and political too, but what it really has that makes it special is that it has a rhythm in the writing that's almost like a song and makes you just keep reading and reading. It's really hard to put down. And there's such a wide array of crazy characters, both the heroes and villains, the author makes you see what they're up against, and how they fight each other, but it's really some one else they should be fighting. I think this is an important book. It's full of humor and insight, and it really makes you think.