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Young Curtis Carson doesn't mean to rip off the Chicanos on his backyard crap games. He just rolls the dice better. But Chicanos don't see it that way, and when one of their brothers is brutally slaughtered in a barroom shootout because of Curtis' dealings with heroin pusher Fat George, the... read more

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First Sentence

IN THE BACKYARD of the white frame house was sand.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Donald Goines (Author)

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  1. african american fiction
  2. classic
  3. cute 
 

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