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:

Arriving in Oakland with his skateboard and dreams of living by the ocean, thirteen-year-old Robby befriends the Animals, a street gang whose culture is based on skateboards, beer, rap slang, and danger.

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.