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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.
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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.
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Rats in the Tree
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paperback. Condition: Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. First Edition. Santa Barbara. 1990. John Daniel & Company. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0936784814. 162 pages. paperback. Cover photograph by Channing Bates. keywords: American Literature Oakland African American. DESCRIPTION - Robby is a 13-year-old black runaway. He arrives in Oakland with his skateboard and his dreams of living by the ocean. What he finds is the Oakland streets - drugs, pervs, garbage, guns, gang warfare, and a close-knit group of friends who make life possible: the Animals. Their culture is based on skateboards, beer, rap slang, and danger. RATS IN THE TREES, told in the language of inner-city street kids, is dark and frightening. But these stories are written with such compassion and vitality that they affirm life. Jess Mowry lives writes and counsels kids in Oakland. In July 1988 he bought a used typewriter and began writing. Since then he has sold stories to ZYZZYVA, Alchemy, Sequoia, and Santa Clara Review. RATS IN THE TREES is his first book. 'Oakland flavored through and through, these wayward stories by a new writer, who actually sees and hears the street life around him, quiver with real life. They breathe, walk, strut, run, spin, cry, and laugh. But above all, Mowry's people hope against hopelessness. Readers weary of the hassle-free narcissistic creative writing that has become the hallmark of recent fiction will find themselves in the hands of a natural storyteller with something deeps meaningful, and moving to say about the way we live now.' - Al Young. 'Jess Mowry is a natural, fiendishly determined, absolutely polished naif who comes out of the blue fully equipped to devastate. His stories must be accurate - they are, after all, right off the street - but how to account for their power and perfection? He is a great discovery.' - Howard Junker, Editor, ZYZZYVA. inventory #16542. Seller Inventory # z16542
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RATS IN THE TREES
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition, first prnt. Paperback Original. No hardcover issue. Glossy pictoral wraps. Unread copy in Fine condition. Mowry's first book, a story collection. Winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary AWard. Seller Inventory # 10857
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RATS IN THE TREES
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Condition: FINE. First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition. His first book - a collection of interrelated stories set on the streets of Oakland, told in the language of inner-city street kids. INSCRIBED by author ("to ---") on the title page and dated in 1997. Winner of the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. 162 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (as new.). Seller Inventory # 46454