Six Out Seven edition by Jess Mowry Literature Fiction eBooks
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Like Way Past Cool, Mowry's powerful third novel tells a story of coming-of-age young, black and poor in America; a tale about a 13-year-old boy from the rural South seeking escape from the ghosts of racism still haunting his little town. Bright, handsome Corbitt Wainwright sees no future in Bridge-end, Mississippi. When his father is sent to prison for attacking a racist white man and he himself becomes involved in a deadly dispute over a catfish, Corbitt flees in hopes of finding life better in Oakland, California. Instead, he becomes enmeshed in a net of guns, gangs and crack, black-on-black crime, violent police and urban-flavored racism. Except for Lactameon, a fat, 13-year-old gang mascot, Oakland might have been another dead end for Corbitt. When they eventually come together, the two boys rescue a starving one-eyed urchin named Ethan from death on the streets. Mowry has an unerring ear for gritty street talk, a vivid and graphic sense of place, whether in Mississippi woods or an Oakland alley, and an unflinching view of the side of America -- a world where black youth have few options -- that most more fortunate Americans prefer not to see or deal with. Drawing upon a wondrously eclectic background of rap and rock music, contemporary and classic movies, street slang, books, Voodoo and ghosts, he synthesizes a whole new mix of adventure fiction; perhaps the only "There And Back Again" in African-American literature.
Six Out Seven edition by Jess Mowry Literature Fiction eBooks
I have read this book more times than I can count. I like "visiting with" the characters. Although some things described in this book have probably changed, the fundamentals assuredly have not. Do read this book - you will not regret it.Product details
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Six Out Seven edition by Jess Mowry Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
First off, I want to say that this is an excellent book. The beginning of the book was very slow, but once you merged into the nover further, the better the book got, and the harder the book was to put down. Its a basic black coming of age novel about a 13 yr old who leaves Mississppi and travels because of circumstances to Oakland, California. Ive reccommended the book to all my friends, and I suggest you do to. It uncovers alot of myths that float around about the black community that needs to be brought to light, and Mr. Mowry does just that![.] GO GET THE BOOK!...
I struggled to finish it.
In Six Out Seven, Jess Mowry has crafted a deeply poignant, graphic and utterly gripping depiction of life as a black youth in America today. Gifted with a real sense for dialogue (you can almost hear the characters speak) and an amazing ability to capture the settings he describes - be it the steamy deep south or the numbing squalor of the ghetto. His characters are real and human, and the reader cannot help but be caught up in their struggle for survival.
Six Out Seven is a spectacular, powerful and emotive piece of literature, that will stay with you long after you turn the last page.
I enjoyed the character development of the story, and how the people are not all as they seem, and don't all believe in "the game" but have to do it anyway. However, the plot is a little weak and the verbage that the characters use grows old after a while, even though it's true to life.
I find it hard to believe that people, kids, live like they are portrayed in this book. I appreciated the descriptive nature of the book and it gave me a phenomenal view into a troubled lifestyle but in a humanizing and sad way. It's a good book, just a little slow in the beginning and, in parts, not very well written.
IN the mid-90's, I was an art student in Oakland. While I had been away for the summer, a murder happened behind my building. I was sure I knew who did the killing, the father of a family once living in a motel across the street from the State Patrol, one of four buildings on an island surrounded by freeways and on-ramps -the 580.
There had been an article in the San Jose Mercury News about Mowry, how he was living in a van and moving around Oakland so no one from Hollywood could find him. My mother sent me the article and I bought his books. Six out Seven had just come out in hard copy. I needed a final project for a course entitled City as Surface with teachers Manwaring and Lacy.
Sometimes in art school one lucks out with that required to earn the highest mark standing right before you on page 1. I wrote to Mr Mowry's publisher to ask to use the opening paragraph to textually interact with the graffiti as one walked passed the murder scene on the footpath. I have not laid eyes on the site, the book, Mr Mowry's simple reply using a typewriter agreeing to the use nor the artwork itself in 15 years. I recall most of it vividly.
It would have been illegal to put the text on the on-ramp's footpath without permission from Caltrans and even if one did get permission to incorporate the text, a clean white canvas erasing all context seemed certain over time. The more I think about it, the opening text of this book should be etched into the cement to ensure Mowry's writing can never be erased nor forgotten in Oakland until the freeway falls and the footpath can be rethought.
'Six Out Seven' is like two books. One book is tha story of Corbitt Wainwright who is a 13 year old boy who lives in Mississippi and tha other story is about Lactameon who is also 13 but lives in West Oakland California. Corbitt is tall and slim and black as space and Lactameon is so fat that he spills out of his clothes but both of these boys have to fight in that same ways to survive and come up. Both of these boys also learn that a lot of tha things that black kidz think are 'cool' are really self destructive things that tha white world teaches or encourages black kids to do like selling and doing drugs and making gang war against each other. These two boys meet in Oakland when Corbitt has to run away. This book is a lot like an adventure story for black kids and is also very deep. I like tha way Jess Mowry describes all of tha characters so that you can see them and they remind you of real people you know. Tha book goes very deep into tha real causes of black on black violence and this is why I think that some people who do book reviews don't like it. Corbitt calls all the killing and violence 'a great big video game that we were taught how to play' and I think he was right. After Corbitt comes to Oakland he discovers that he even has to play tha game if he wants to stay alive. This is what so many people don't know about these things and living in tha hood. Sometimes kids don't have any choice about playing tha game except to die if they don't. This book is filled with many interesting and on tha real characters like Corbitt's homies in Mississippi who are Lamar who is a very muscular boy and Toby who is white and who gets beat up by other white boys for being Corbitt's friend. And there is Sherry Cooper who is a beautiful black girl. Lactameon's homies in Oakland are a boy named Beamer who was a crack baby and is a little bit retarded but who is smart anyway and a half white boy named Ethan who only has one eye. Then there is Toni who is a cool girl but she also has to play tha game to live. There is also a 14 year old crack dealer named Hobbes and his bodyguard Sebastain. Tha settings and lives of these kidz are all on tha real but maybe not to somebody who never lived in places like this or who had to play 'tha game' to stay alive. There is also some 'black magic' and mystery in this story. And a ghost of a boy who was killed by tha KKK long ago who haunts Corbitt no matter where he goes. I think tha main message of this book is that only black kidz ourselves can stop all tha drugs and violence and that we need to check ourselves and stop playing tha game to do this.
I have read this book more times than I can count. I like "visiting with" the characters. Although some things described in this book have probably changed, the fundamentals assuredly have not. Do read this book - you will not regret it.
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