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Graffiti palace / A.G. Lombardo.
Van Pelt Library PS3612.O447 G73 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lombardo, A. G., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965--Fiction.
- Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965.
- Riots--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.
- Riots.
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Race relations--Fiction.
- Race relations.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- FICTION / Literary.
- FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology.
- FICTION / Urban.
- Local Subjects:
- FICTION / Literary.
- FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology.
- FICTION / Urban.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 322 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
- Summary:
- Its August 1965 and Los Angeles is scorching. Americo Monk, a street-haunting aficionado of graffiti, is frantically trying to return home to the makeshift harbor community (assembled from old shipping containers) where he lives with his girlfriend, Karmann. But this is during the Watts Riots, and although his status as a chronicler of all things underground garners him free passage through the territories fiercely controlled by gangs, his trek is nevertheless diverted.
- ISBN:
- 9780374165918
- 0374165912
- OCLC:
- 988061498
- Publisher Number:
- 99976505257
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