Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America by Geoffrey Canada (1996, Paperback, Reprint)

Key Details
Author:	Geoffrey Canada
Language:	English
Publisher:	Beacon Pr
Format:	Paperback
ISBN-10:	0807004235
ISBN-13:	9780807004234

Additional Details
Edition Description:	Reprint

Size
Height:	8.8 in
Width:	5.8 in
Thickness:	0.8 in
Weight:	8 oz

Publisher's Note
A classic coming-of-age memoir that examines urban youth violence and its causesLong before U.S. News and World Report named him one of America's Best Leaders and Oprah Winfrey called him "an angel from God," Geoffrey Canada was a small, vulnerable, scared boy growing up in the South Bronx. Canada's world was one where "sidewalk" boys learned the codes of the block and were ranked through the rituals of fist, stick, and knife. Then the streets changed, and the stakes got even higher. In this candid and riveting memoir, Canada relives a childhood in which violence stalked every street corner. "If you wonder how a fourteen-year-old can shoot another child his own age in the head and then go home to dinner," Canada writes, "you need to know you don't get there in a day, or week, or month. It takes years of preparation to be willing to commit murder, to be willing to kill or die for a corner, a color, or a leather jacket."

Industry Reviews
" ...reads like a life-saving blueprint for the 21st century."
(07/15/2010)

"Among the many startling relevations that...Canada brings to his study of urban violence among children today...is his well-researched argument that the gun-manufacturing industry has begun to market guns to children and women in the inner city."
San Francisco Chronicle - Paula Woods (07/09/1995)

"In Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America, Geoffrey Canada writes of this crisis in a style that is rarely less simple, or any less jolting."
New York Times Book Review - Leah Hager Cohen (06/18/1995)