Boyz 'n the Hood (Signet) [Paperback]

Mike Phillips (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Signet (November 3, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451174062
• ISBN-13: 978-0451174062
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #640,405 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Writer Mike Phillips was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He came to Britain as a child and grew up in London. He was educated at the University of London and the University of Essex, and gained a Postgraduate Certificate of Education at Goldsmiths College, London.

He worked for the BBC as a journalist and broadcaster between 1972 and 1983 on television programmes including The Late Show and Omnibus, before becoming a lecturer in media studies at the University of Westminster. He has written full-time since 1992. He is best known for his crime fiction, including four novels featuring black journalist Sam Dean: Blood Rights (1989), which was adapted for BBC television, The Late Candidate (1990), winner of the Crime Writers' Association Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Point of Darkness (1994) and An Image to Die For (1995). The Dancing Face (1997) is a thriller centred on a priceless Benin mask. His most recent novel, A Shadow of Myself (2000), is a thriller about a black documentary filmmaker working in Prague and a man who claims to be his brother. He is currently working on a sequel.

Mike Phillips co-wrote Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain (1998) to accompany a BBC television series telling the story of the Caribbean migrant workers who settled in post-war Britain. His book, London Crossings: A Biography of Black Britain (2001), is a series of interlinked essays and stories, a portrait of the city seen from locations as diverse as New York and Nairobi, London and Lodz, Washington and Warsaw.

His latest book is Kind of Union (2005).

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4.0 out of 5 stars Reality Bites!, October 24, 1999

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This review is from: Boyz 'n the Hood (Signet) (Paperback)

The truth, the truth, definately the truth. it's what's really going on in some major parts of this country, sad to say but it is so true, and just to name a few places that it is happenig, in is California I know, cause I've lived there, it's also going on in Denver Co, I know cause I've lived there as well, and last but not least, it's happenig here in Seattle Wa, we need to focus more on our youg folks, and create positive things for them to do.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Reality Bites!, October 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Boyz 'n the Hood (Signet) (Paperback)

The truth, the truth, definately the truth. it's what's really going on in some majaor parts of this country, sad to say but it is so true, and just to name a few places that it is happenig, in is california, I know cause I've lived there, it's also going on in Denver Co, I know cause I've lived there as well, and last but not least, it's happenig here in Seattle Wa, we need to focus more on our youg folks, and create positive things for them to do.