Skin Deep

"Garcia tells a good story. But in Skin Deep he takes the 'Chicano novel' out of the barrio to where it has never been before. Here is a novel about two sides of town—and the life that moves between them. Skin Deep is a novel about a soul in the modern city."—Richard Rodriguez

"An exciting, beautifully paced contemporary novel that is at the same time faithful to its origins, burdened by its past, and dramatically aware of its own cultural options."—Carlos Fuentes

About the author

Guy Garcia was born in Los Angeles and attended the University of California at Berkeley. The author of the novel Obsidian Sky, he is a contributor to the fiction anthologies Iguana Dreams and Pieces of the Heart, and lives in New York City.

Summary

A novel about coming of age in the new America, a place in which races and cultures have not so much melded as collided and in which no identity is secure.

Product details

• Authors: Guy Garcia, Garcia Guy
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.04.1997
• EAN: 9780520208360
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20836-0
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: California Fiction; California Fiction
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary