Title: Concrete candy
First published: 1996
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, African American teenage boys, City and town life, Inner cities, Fiction, general, Fiction, short stories (single author), Oakland (calif.), fiction, California, fiction, African americans, fiction, Teenagers' writings, American
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3551.P53 C66 1996