- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition (Oct 31 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312360088
- ISBN-13: 978-0312360085
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.1 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #346,627 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
K'wan's latest (after Eve) is a meandering trip across Harlem with plenty of pit stops for vice and violence. Yoshi is a stripper who prostitutes herself for extra cash; Rhonda is a promiscuous and abusive mother of three; Reese is a scabrous, demanding kept woman; and Billy is an attractive, sporty woman with a healthy distrust of the men who live in their Harlem 'hood. All of the women get sucked into drama involving neighborhood rappers, drug dealings, abortion, fistfights, catfights, shootings, rape, AIDS or good, old-fashioned drunkenness. There's a bevy of minor characters, each involved in intersecting subplots, though these don't so much coalesce as run their course. The most interesting story involves Paul, a man who's trying to go straight and become an artist, and who's also dating a respectable lawyer named Marlene, but things are destined to end badly. None of the characters rises above stereotype and the plotting is mechanical, but the big draw here is the electric prose, which is imbued with profane, comic lyricism. (May)
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Hood Rat (n.): A woman of questionable repute, one who has been known to "get around" in the 'hood.
Yoshi is young, fine, and larcenous. She lives her life playing on men's hearts as well as their pockets. She learns the hard way that all that glitters isn't gold. Billy, a former high school basketball star, is at the end of her rope with the opposite sex. To her, all men are dogs, so she secretly seeks comfort in the arms of women, until she meets a man who makes her reevaluate her feelings. Reese is an around-the-way chick, trying to keep up with the Joneses. There's a revolving door on her bedroom as she tries to find the love she always felt was missing. Her promiscuity leaves her pregnant from a one-night stand and Reese is faced with the task of breaking an age-old cycle, passed down from mother to daughter in her family, and standing on her own. Rhonda is twenty-something with three kids, by three men, and riding the system all the way to the bank. To her, work is a dirty word; between the multiple checks she gets from the government, and the games she plays with men, she's living the life of a ghetto superstar. The game soon turns ugly when one of her "sponsors" snaps and decides to get some payback.
Harlem has never seen four friends as scandalous as these. The neighborhood will never be the same again.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Read!,
By Moni (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hood Rat: A Novel (Paperback)
At the beginning I had to force myself ro read it, because I didn't find the first couple pages interesting. But as I continued to read on it got live! Some scandelous women will do anything! But all in all good read.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another slammin' story!,
By ScotianDiva "Mz. Tucker" (Nova Scotia, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hood Rat: A Novel (Paperback)
This book was crazy!!! Hood rats come in all forms... so beware! K'wan hit another one right on the nose... the end is crazy; well the who book is crazy. This is one you definitely will not put down. If you're a fan and you haven't picked this one up, you better go get a copy.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Non Stop Don't Stop ... K'wan Foye is Da Man,
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This review is from: Hood Rat: A Novel (Paperback)
I hope K'wan never EVER stops writing.
I happened upon Hood Rat while visiting my local library. You see, I own all of K'wan's books and wouldn't have it any other way. However, I didn't know that this was out, and upon seeing it, had to read it immediately. Now, I've gotta go buy it because I will not fail to add it to my collection. K'wan is a master of the urban genre. I cannot even think of enough superlatives, accolades to heap upon this genius of a writer. What action, what detail, what chemistry. I can relate to each and every story. His prose is extremely readable, realistic, and just ... ok, I can't think of the words to express my joy in reading each and every book. This one, however, is the beyond my greatest hopes for a K'wan novel. Buy it ... don't sleep ... you'd be crazy to pass this one up. Matter of fact, you'd be ABSOLUTELY INSANE to pass up any K'wan book!! Run! Now!
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