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Set in 1988, arch-criminal and master manipulator Armand Moore persuades four young, African-American employees of First National Bank of Chicago to steal $70 million via a sophisticated take-down of the banking wire system.
Set in Granite City, a small steel town in Southern Illinois, a group of poor, immigrant high school boys from the wrong side of the tracks rise above bigotry in 1940s by proving themselves on the basketball court.
A prominent black literary figure writes a faux autobiography from the perspective of a barely literate hoodlum to decry what is wrong with the glorification of "ghetto" culture. But when the book is lauded as a possible contender for the National Book Award, he must choose between pride and fame.