Way Past Cool

Way Past Cool

by JessMowry (Author)

Synopsis

In the black ghettos of Oakland, California, teenage gangs skip school to fight for drugs and territory. At 16 a veteran of this jungle warfare, Ty rides shotgun for the drug-dealing Deek, keeping his mind numb and his conscience clean with crate-loads of beer. By the author of Rats in the Trees .

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 20 May 1993

ISBN 10: 0099177110
ISBN 13: 9780099177111

Author Bio
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.