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American Skin A Novel

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ISBN-10: 0684862220

ISBN-13: 9780684862224

Edition: 2000

Authors: Don De Grazia

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American Skinwas first published in the United Kingdom to resounding acclaim after the author used his last seventy-five dollars to make an unsolicited submission to the publisher of the Scottish beats, whose work he admired. It is a timeless story about a young man's coming-of-age as well as a stunning portrait of the class and racial tensions that pervade our society. Alex Verdi is on the lam, fleeing from the police who have arrested his parents on drug charges and want him for questioning. Traveling to Chicago, he joins a multiracial group of anti-Nazi skinheads and embarks on an odyssey that takes him from the city's embattled streets to an Army boot camp to Northwestern's plush…    
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Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication date: 4/6/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990

Don De Grazia,a former factory worker, bouncer and soldier, is a professor of Creative Writing at Columbia College in Chicago and the editor ofF Literary Magazine,a journal devoted to new fiction. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.