Drowning Tucson - Softcover

Morales, Aaron Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566892406 ISBN 13: 9781566892407

Verlag: Coffee House Press, 2010

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Hi-def, brutally honest tales from the streets of Tucson.

Set in Tucson’s toughest neighborhoods during the late 1980s, this riveting debut follows the disintegration of the Nuñez family and the people whose paths they cross. From young gangbangers to crooked cops, and from murderous vigilantes to prostitutes plying their trade along the “Miracle Mile,” each character’s destiny is linked by crushing poverty, the brutal codes of the street, and the harsh nature of the desert.

In this small city with major metropolis problems—a place of both drought and flood—“civilization” is every bit as dangerous as its surroundings. Like a southwest version of HBO’s The Wire, this heartrending novel is an episodic portrait of a desperate, violent America, populated by characters as lethal as they are sympathetic.

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Born in 1976, Aaron Michael Morales is the author of Drowning Tucson, his debut novel. Morales grew up in Tucson and at age ten, he became a paperboy for the Arizona Daily Star. Since then his jobs have ranged from working in a car parts factory to bartending in Chicago’s Oak Park neighborhood. Now, with a BA from Indiana State University and an MFA from Purdue University, Morales teaches writing and literature at Indiana State University and is working on his second novel.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Coffee House Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1566892406
• ISBN 13: 9781566892407
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 330
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