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Victor Lavalle

Slapboxing with Jesus

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Thirteen original and interconnected stories in the tradition of Junot Diaz and Sherman Alexie. Victor D. La Valle's astonishing, violent, and funny debut offers harrowing glimpses at the vulnerable lives of young people who struggle not only to come of age, but to survive the city streets.In ancient history, two best friends graduating from high school fight to be the one to leave first for a better world; each one wants to be the fortunate son. In pops, an African American boy meets his father, a white cop from Connecticut, and tries not to care. And in kids on colden street, a boy is momentarily uplifted by the arrival of a younger sist… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-375-70590-8
  • EAN: 9780375705908
  • Produktnummer: 9478335
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.

Über den Autor


Victor D. LaValle was raised in Flushing and Rosedale, Queens. He graduated from Cornell University with a degree in English and received his M.F.A. in Fiction from Columbia University. He has been a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Currently he is at work on his first novel.

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