RATS IN THE TREES.

Mowry, Jess.

ISBN 10: 0936784814 / ISBN 13: 9780936784816

Published by SANTA BARBARA: JOHN DAniel & COMPANY. 1990, 1990

About this Item

First edition. REVIEW COPY. (Publisher's printed press release laid-in) Paperback original. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Award winner. Author's FIRST book. Seller Inventory # 20099

Bibliographic Details

Title: RATS IN THE TREES.

Publisher: SANTA BARBARA: JOHN DAniel & COMPANY. 1990

Publication Date: 1990

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

Edition: First Edition; First Printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

From the author of the hip novel Way Past Cool come these moving, streetwise stories about wayward boys. Mowry captures with moving accuracy and rare insight the bravado, humor, and compassion born in young men struggling for dignity and love. Optioned for a feature film by John Singleton, director of Boyz 'n the Hood.

About the Author:

Jess Mowry was born in Mississipi in 1960 and raised in Oakland, California by his father. He has been a drug dealer's bodyguard, made his living from collecting scrap metal. and worked in a centre for street kids. In 1988 he bought a typewriter for eight dollars and began writing. His stories have been published in literary magazines and the collection Rats in the Trees won a PEN/Josephine Miles Award. He has written the novels Children of the Night, Way Past Cool and Six Out Seven.