Concrete candy
Subtitle: stories
By: Apollo.
Edition: 1st Anchor books ed.
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
Subjects: African American teenage boys -- Fiction.; City and town life -- Fiction.; Inner cities -- Fiction.; United States -- social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Concrete Candy marks the debut of an astonishing new writer - notable both for the authenticity and immediacy of his voice and for his age: fifteen. Three years ago, Apollo, a child of the inner city and a protege of the acclaimed novelist Jess Mowry, began writing stories that reflect the tension, drama, and pathos of the urban reality he has lived and witnessed. The result is this collection of six powerful, haunting tales of boys dangerously adrift in the 'hood.