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Signed 6th printing, Joanna Cotler hardcover w/ DJ, 1996. Book is Near Fine,

Signed 6th printing, Joanna Cotler hardcover w/ DJ, 1996. Book is Near Fine, w/ clean text, binding so tight it seems to have never been read. DJ is VG+, w/ very light edge/shelf wear. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. Free delivery confirmation.

Very good hardcover, very good dust jacket.

Very good hardcover, very good dust jacket.

First Edition, First Printing (Full Number Line). Not price-clipped ($14.95

First Edition, First Printing (Full Number Line). Not price-clipped ($14.95 price intact). Published by Joanna Cotler Books, 1996. Octavo. Red cloth over black boards stamped in green. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new. 216 pages. ISBN: 0060267046. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!

Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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Book. Octavo, 216 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket.

Book. Octavo, 216 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Black spine with red, white, and green lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering, price uncut: "$14.95". Minor shelf wear. Interior pages clean. Signed flat by Martinez on title page. Shelved above YA. 1382987. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 8 inches. [8], 216 pages. Signed by

Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 8 inches. [8], 216 pages. Signed by the author on the title page, 1997. National Book Award Winner sticker on front of DJ. The chapters are: The Baseball Glove, Rick's Pool Hall, Charity, The Bullet, The Garden, The Rifle, The Boxing Match, Family Affair, Dying of Love, A Test of Courage, and Going Home. In this beautifully written novel, Victor Martinez gives readers a vivid portrait of one Mexican-American boy's life. Manny's story is like a full-color home movie--sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always intensely original. For Manuel Hernandez, the year leading up to his test of courage, his initiation into a gang, is a time filled with the pain and tension, awkwardness and excitement of growing up in a mixed-up, crazy world. Manny's dad is always calling him el perico, or parrot. It's from a Mexican saying about a parrot that complains how hot it is in the shade while all along he's sitting inside the oven and doesn't know it. His dad spends most of his time and money at the local pool hall; his brother flips through jobs like a thumb through a deck of cards; and his mom never stops cleaning the house, as though one day the rooms will be so spotless they'll disappear into a sparkle, and she'll be free. But Manny wants to be smarter than the parrot in the oven, he wants to find out what it means to be a vato firme, a guy to respect. this is a beautifully written, vivid portrait of one Mexican-American boy's life. 1998 Pura Belpre Author Award; An 1996 Americas Award for Literature; An 1996 National Book Award for Literature. Victor L. Martinez (February 21, 1954-February 18, 2011) was an American poet and author. He won the 1996 U.S. National Book Award for his first novel, Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida. Martinez was the born in Fresno, California to Mexican migrant agricultural field workers of the Central Valley. He was one of twelve children. Victor attended California State University at Fresno and later obtained a graduate degree from Stanford University on a Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship. He began writing as a poet and published a book of poetry, "Caring for a House, " in 1992. He was a member of Humanizarte, a collective of Chicano poets, and later of the Chicano/Latino Writers' Center of San Francisco. He supported himself with jobs as a welder, truck driver, firefighter, teacher, and office clerk. In February 2011, he died of lung cancer at age 56 in San Francisco. Martinez and his first novel Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida won a National Book Award in 1996. Parrot was a semi-autobiographical account of a 14-year-old Mexican American boy growing up "in a world of gangs, violence and poverty" in the projects of Central Valley (California). It has been translated into languages including Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and German, and widely acclaimed around the world.