Adam Mansbach
A fearless novel about the price of revenge from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Go the F*** to Sleep,Kilroy Dondi Vance is an eighteen-year-old mixed-race Brooklynite who deals pot and goes to prep school on scholarship, all while growing up in the shadow of his absentee father, Billy Rage, a legendary graffiti writer who disappeared from New York City in 1989 following a public feud with MTA police chief Anastacio Bracken.,Now itâ€™s 2005. Bracken is running for mayor of New York City. And who should Dondi discover on a rooftop in Brooklyn but his father, newly returned to the city and ready to settle the score. The return of Rage and the mayoral race of Bracken prompt a reunion of every graffiti writer who mattered in the 1980sâ€”in order to thwart Bracken with the greatest graffiti stunt New York City has ever seen.,Rage Is Back delivers a mind-bending journey through a subterranean world of epic heroes and villains. Moving through the cityâ€™s unseen communities, from the tunnel camps of the Mole People to the drug dens of Crown Heights, Rage Is Back is many things: a dramatic, hilarious thrill ride; a love letter to NYC that introduces the most powerful urban underdog narrator this side of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and a literary tour de force from a writer on the brink of real stardom.
Fiction,Contemporary,Fantasy,Young Adult,Magical Realism,New York,Art,Mystery,Science Fiction,Time Travel,Young Adult,Coming Of Age
Rage Is Back