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Corner boy / Herbert Simmons.
LIBRA PS3569.I47327 C67 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simmons, Herbert.
- Series:
- Old school books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 250 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Norton, [1996]
- Summary:
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 0393314650
- 9780393314656
- OCLC:
- 33333322
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