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The Big Blowdown
Author: George Pelecanos
Copyright: 1996
Copyright: 1996
Setting Year: 1933
Setting Decade: 1930s
Main Themes: Immigrant Life
Excerpt: DiGeordana lived in the same area of Chinatown as Karras, at 5th and H. His apartment building, all three floors of it, housed strictly Italians, the way it worked, as people usually drifted to their own kind Excerpt Page Number: 8
Address:
5th St & H St NW 20001
Setting Year: 1933
Setting Decade: 1930s
Main Themes:
Excerpt: The first who had succumbed to the heat was a tourist from San Francisco, a Swede in his middle years who collapsed at the corner of 2nd Street and Virginia Avenue, dead of an exploded heart before he hit the sidewalk. Excerpt Page Number: 7
Address:
2nd Street and Virginia Avenue 20003
Setting Year: 1933
Setting Decade: 1930s
Main Themes:
Excerpt: In the Boy's Club at 5th and G, Stevene Mamakos and his trainer, "Buster" Brown, had spent the better part of the morning teaching Karras how to box. Excerpt Page Number:
Address:
5th and G 20003
Setting Year: 1933
Setting Decade: 1930s
Main Themes:
Excerpt: Mamakos looked down at the rowboat, then pointed his chin towards Hains Point. "What we ought to do, maybe we ought to take that over to the Speedway, go for a swim while we're at it." Excerpt Page Number: 9
Address:
Hains Point 20042
Setting Year: 1933
Setting Decade: 1930s
Main Themes:
Excerpt: "Billy Nicodemus lived in the same building as Peter Karras, at 606 H." Excerpt Page Number: 13
Address:
606 H Street NW 20001
