Name: Dark Dude (en Inglés)
SKU: 64607077
Price: 20.86 USD
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Author: Oscar Hijuelos

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books

Autor

Oscar Hijuelos

Año

2025

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

448

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.96x13.97x2.79 cm

ISBN13

9798347100002

Dark Dude (en Inglés)

Oscar Hijuelos (Autor) · Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books · Tapa Blanda

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From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Oscar Hijuelos comes a “frank, gritty, vibrant, and wholly absorbing” (Booklist, starred review) young adult novel set in the late 1960s about a haunting choice and an unforgettable journey of identity, mis-identity, and all that we take with us when we run away. Now with a stunning new look!

He didn’t say good-bye. He didn’t leave a phone number. And he didn’t plan on coming back—ever.

Fifteen-year-old Rico Fuentes has had enough of life in Harlem, where his fair complexion—inherited from an Irish grandfather—keeps him caught between two cultures without belonging to either. He pours his outsider feelings into a comic book Dark Dude, with his friend Jimmy illustrating. But when Gilberto, who’s always looked out for Rico, moves to Wisconsin and Jimmy loses himself to an insidious habit, Rico decides enough is enough.

With Jimmy in tow, Rico runs away to the Midwest in search of Gilberto. The heavily white community feels worlds away from Harlem, and for the first time, Rico sees what it’s like to blend in—no longer the “dark dude” or the punching bag for the whole neighborhood. But the less energy Rico needs to put into proving he’s Latino, the less he feels like one. And the more he gets to know the people around him, the more it’s clear that a change in location doesn’t change human nature—and that there’s no such thing as a perfect community.

Faced with the truth that there are things that can’t be cut loose or forgotten, things that keep him from ever having an ordinary white kid’s life, Rico must decide whether he can make a home in the place he ran to…or the one he ran from.