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A fearless new African-American writer confronts America's seething inner cities in this breakthrough collection -- These powerful stories realistically portray inner city poverty and pain With all the lyrical force of gangsta rap -- but without glorifying violence -- these compelling short stories reveal the brutal, gut-wrenching truth of inner city life. Like Jim Thompson, Chester Himes, and the best of the noir writers from the '50s, writer Bruce Jackson lends a gripping urgency to these tales of addiction, of the drug culture, of harassment by the law, families split at the seams, and…mehr

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A fearless new African-American writer confronts America's seething inner cities in this breakthrough collection -- These powerful stories realistically portray inner city poverty and pain With all the lyrical force of gangsta rap -- but without glorifying violence -- these compelling short stories reveal the brutal, gut-wrenching truth of inner city life. Like Jim Thompson, Chester Himes, and the best of the noir writers from the '50s, writer Bruce Jackson lends a gripping urgency to these tales of addiction, of the drug culture, of harassment by the law, families split at the seams, and pervasive, penetrating anger. His is an essential new voice in troubling times.
Autorenporträt
Bruce Jackson has lived in Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and currently resides in Seattle where he works with troubled children in a public elementary school.