Buffalo Nickel Book

This is a unique autobiography by renowned novelist-boxer Floyd Salas which charts his dramatic coming of age in the conflicting shadows of two older brothers: one a drug addict and petty criminal, the other an intellectual prodigy. Through intense, passionate prose, Salas takes us through pimp bars, boxing rings and jails in his youthful search for his own true identity amidst the tragedies that envelope his family. Buffalo Nickel is non-fiction that reads like a well-crafted novel in its recording of the excessive cost in personal, human terms of drug addiction to a whole family. Salas is the author of three novels hailed as "stirring", "stunning" and "vivid and authentic" by The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.