Born Bad

$20 · Offered by Gauntlet Press

Published 2000 Barry Hoffman, author of BORN BAD whose book discussion was cancelled at the University of Pennsylvania Bookstore (with university administration officials upholding the ban) due to the sensitive nature of the book (suicides taking place on campus), protested his banning by giving away 100 copies of the Leisure paperback January 16, 2001 in front of the bookstore at 36th and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia. BORN BAD has received rave reviews. Below is a sampling. More than anything else, it is an unflinching look at the subject of suicide and the help that is available. No one has to face the darkness alone. Except, perhaps, on the University of Pennsylvania campus, where it is better to keep such issues quiet. Fascinating and eye-opening. -SF Site Read the book that the University of Pennsylvania banned from its campus. Is bad girl Shanicha Wilkins, an orphaned crack baby grown into a remorseless young woman, responsible for the rash of co-ed suicides at the University of Pennsylvania? Homicide detective Ariel Dampier, a light-skinned woman of interracial background, is on the case. Fast, explosive, cutting-edge suspense. -Creature Feature I can t tell you what s more frightening Barry Hoffman s razor sharp vivisection of the human condition or the fact that a novel of such elegance and unflinching honesty was banned by the University of Pennsylvania, an institution supposedly dedicated to challenging minds. Hoffman lends dark literature a style and class that

• Binding: Hardcover

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