..".first-rate work....The writing is excellent throughout: the characters are well drawn, interesting and sharply differentiated; the dialogue is trenchant and lively; the atmosphere captures the world in which these people live and act; and most of all, the story, the narrative is suspenseful and imminently believable. I was with the book all the way. It is a keen portrait of the world it is depicting and exploring.... -Edwin Wilson CUNY Grad Center, Yale University Wall Street Journal
Rudy Gray gives us a black teacher in a Bronx junior high during the gold-chain-snatching early...
..".first-rate work....The writing is excellent throughout: the characters are well drawn, interesting and sharply differentiated; the dialogue is ...
..".first-rate work....The writing is excellent throughout: the characters are well drawn, interesting and sharply differentiated; the dialogue is trenchant and lively; the atmosphere captures the world in which these people live and act; and most of all, the story, the narrative is suspenseful and imminently believable. I was with the book all the way. It is a keen portrait of the world it is depicting and exploring.... -Edwin Wilson CUNY Grad Center, Yale University Wall Street Journal
Rudy Gray gives us a black teacher in a Bronx junior high during the gold-chain-snatching early...
..".first-rate work....The writing is excellent throughout: the characters are well drawn, interesting and sharply differentiated; the dialogue is ...
