The Corner\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner City Neighborhood<\/i>, is co-author David Simon's follow-up to his prize-winning book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets.<\/i> Co-author Edward Burns was a 20-year man who served in the Baltimore homicide unit Simon wrote about, and is now a schoolteacher. Like Homicide<\/i> before it, The Corner<\/i><\/p>
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