''Bloodbrothers'' is a novel by

Richard Price Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a British moral philosopher, Nonconformist minister and mathematician. He was also a political reformer, pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the French ...

, published in 1976. It recounts the story of an eighteen-year-old boy growing up in a working-class environment. It was adapted into a film of the same title in 1978.

Critical reception

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'' wrote that "Price intensifies the themes of ''The Wanderers''—the end of adolescent freedom, the cruelty of parents who despise what they’ve become and take it out on their kids, the paralyzing fear that comes with choosing a future among meager options." ''

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'' wrote that "although the characters draw their only life from the frenetic, stabbing speechways echoing down Price's mean streets, this does not diminish the validity or impact of men on the march to nowhere."

References

1976 American novels American novels adapted into films Novels by Richard Price (writer) Houghton Mifflin books {{1970s-novel-stub