Rat Tales and Other Stories

Harris Cohen's stories are packed with urban Tom Sawyers, restless G.I.s, and scores of vivid characters, some serious, others hilarious. Cohen is a natural storyteller with a keen eye and a rat-a-tat pace. Buckle your seatbelts and prepare for a fast ride with Rat Moskowitz and his West Philly gang ¿ 1940s and 1950s boys whose playgrounds were city streets and rooftops, boys who reveled in childhood freedoms that American kids today can't imagine. In Cohen's short, lively stories, you'll also meet code-catchers on Okinawa, Hotchee Mommas, a lost lady from Jamaica, and other characters you won't soon forget.