The Warriors - by Sol Yurick (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

The basis for the 1979 cult classic film and the musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, coming to Broadway in spring 2027

Every gang in the city meets on a sweltering July 4 night in a Bronx park for a peace rally. The crowd of miscreants turns violent after a prominent gang leader is killed, and chaos prevails over attempts at order.

The Warriors follows the Dominators as they make their nocturnal journey to their home territory without being killed. The police are prowling the city in search of anyone involved in the mayhem. An exhilarating novel that examines New York City teenagers left behind by society, who form identity and personal strength through their affiliation with their "family," The Warriors weaves together social commentary with ancient legends for a classic coming-of-age tale.

This edition includes a new introduction by the author.

Review Quotes

Praise for Sol Yurick and The Warriors:

"Rage is the fuel that makes Sol Yurick's fiction burn."--New York Times

"[Sol Yurick] was too radical, too extreme and too violent for the respectable literary establishment of New York, yet no writer more fully embodied the city's anguished spirit in the 1960s."--The Guardian

"It seems to me the best novel of its kind I've ever read, an altogether perfect achievement. I'm sure that to many it will sound like sacrilege but I have to say that I think it a better novel than Lord of the Flies."--Warren Miller, author of The Cool World

"Written powerfully enough to make you succumb to the distorted reality and values of these groups as you follow 'the family' on a brutal odyssey back to Coney Island . . . Raw, intense and perversely readable."--Kirkus Reviews

"The Warriors goes to the core of the heart of darkness."--Flyer

About the Author

Solomon Yurick was born on January 18, 1925, in Manhattan, New York City. He received a bachelor's degree in English from New York University and a master's degree in English from Brooklyn College. He worked for many years as an investigator for the New York City Department of Welfare. His first novel, The Warriors, was published in 1965. It was adapted into a movie in 1979 and inspired popular video games for Xbox and PlayStation 2 that were released in 2005. His other novels include Fertig, The Bag, and Richard A. He died due to complications of lung cancer on January 5, 2013, at the age of 87.