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Corner Boy: (Old School Book) (Old School Books) - Softcover

Simmons, Herbert

 
9780393314656: Corner Boy: (Old School Book) (Old School Books)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393314650 ISBN 13: 9780393314656
Verlag: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Announcing the launch of Old School Books--a bold and innovative series that rediscovers the greatest (and toughest) African-American writers of our time. Herbert Simmons' first novel, winner of the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship in 1957, relates the violent rise and fall of 18-years-old Jake Adams, whose Buick Dynaflow, custom-made suits, and attractiveness to women are all the fuits of his job pushing dope for the Organization.

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Corner Boy is a powerful work of social realism that won the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship in 1957. Jake Adams, at 18 years of age, strides the mean streets of his world like a conqueror. He has custom-made suits in his closet, drives a Buick Dynaflow, and has all the women he wants - all fruits of his success pushing dope for the Organization. His violent rise and fall offers an unforgettable portrait of life in an urban jungle.

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Verlag
W.W. Norton & Co.
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393314650
ISBN 13 
9780393314656
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
252
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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