Two black high-school seniors in crime-ridden South Central Los Angeles try to maintain their love affair even after their paths diverge after graduation--one leading to the drug trade and the other to college. Reprint.
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"Good literature has no agenda; it's not propoganda. Tervalon offers no 'solutions' but gives us instead a portait of people who live in a certain world at a certain time and who do the best they can. Understand This is perhaps less an order than a plea." -- Washington Post.
"In Understand This, Jervey Tervalon reminds us that sad tales and lost souls may tear our hearts apart but they don't stop life from continually renewing itself." -- Quarterly Black Review Of Books.
"Understand This explores more difficult landscape -- geographic and interior -- than many of its angrier and grittier brethren, pushing readers into the minds of the sort of African-American Angelenos that most books and movies and hip-hop music ignore. Resisting the peer pressure to posture macho, Tervalon is freer to flex his wit, work out his fine observational skills, and inject his warmth into the yarn. A daring book." -- Los Angeles Times.
"Gritty and gripping, Understand This marks the debut of a powerful new voice in American fiction." -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
"An urban masterpiece... a gritty, haunting West Side Story-esque ghetto romance of stunning violence yet overpowering beauty." -- Philadelphia Enquirer..
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Book by Tervalon Jervey
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- EditoreAnchor Books
- Data di pubblicazione1995
- ISBN 10 0385478240
- ISBN 13 9780385478243
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine271
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