| Understand This Contributor(s): Tervalon, Jervey (Author), Yarborough, Richard (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0520223551 ISBN-13: 9780520223554 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $28.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2000 Annotation: "Gritty and gripping, "Understand This" marks the debut of a powerful new voice in American fiction."--Henry Louis Gates Jr., author of "The Signifying Monkey" "Lean, wire-tight, and dazzlingly structured, Tervalon's "Understand This" is a book for our times."--Jose Saldivar, author of "Border Matters" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00032581 |
| Series: California Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.53" W x 8.27" (0.73 lbs) 278 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - West Coast - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Cultural Region - Southern California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Jervey Tervalon's novel about young people in South Central Los Angeles grows out of his experience teaching in a high school there and his pain at the death of one of his favorite students. |