Spidertown (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Abraham Rodriguez, Jr.
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Love or romance, Crime or criminals, New York City, Betrayal, Gangs, youth, Substance abuse, Drug addiction or addicts, Drugs, Drug trafficking or dealing, 1990’s, Latinos, Cocaine, Arson
- Locales: South Bronx, NY
It has been less than a year since Abraham Rodriguez, Jr., made his literary debut with the publication of THE BOY WITHOUT A FLAG: TALES OF THE SOUTH BRONX (1992), a modest collection of seven loosely linked, place-related stories praised for Rodriguez’s gritty, graffiti-colored depiction of the South Bronx. Now, in SPIDERTOWN, his first novel, Rodriguez returns to the South Bronx that he knows so well to tell the story of Miguel, a sixteen-and-a-half-year-old Puerto Rican drug-runner who is trying to make sense out of the chaos that has become his everyday life, a boy lured into a...
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