Omar Tyree

FINALLY - AN INTELLEGENT, MASCULINE, URBAN CLASSIC FROM THE MAN WHO STARTED IT ALLOMAR TYREE!Omar Tyree @ (www.OmarTyree.com)The Last Street Novel Omar Tyree does it again! The Philadelphian-born author who jumpstarted the urban fiction craze over a dozen years ago with Flyy Girl, writes a riveting new tale of Shareef Crawford, a celebrated writer of romantic fiction, who returns to his roots of Harlem, New York, from the sunny mansion resides of South Florida, to pen a true crime book that may just end his life. Craving more respect for his craft as a writer, particularly from his peer group of urban men, Shareef allows an enticing new fan to pitch him on writing a no-holds-barred, tell-all about an imprisoned Harlem gangster, who has admired his writing from jail. With insane courage and an iron will, Shareef, the street-smart intellectual finally gets a chance to write something more edgy and purposeful to better highlight his skills.However, the Harlem streets that he returns to in year 2006 has changed, and the stakes of survival are higher now than they’ve ever been. Amongst the rise of high-priced condominiums, a changing population, young criminals gunning to make names for themselves, and old criminals fighting to become legitimate businessmen, Shareef finds himself caught in the middle of a real-life thriller, where past foes become friends, and trusted friends become dangerous foes. Nevertheless, the Harlem legend is hell bent to do anything he feels he must to gain the respect on the streets that his career as a novelist has failed to give him.The Last Street Novel is another urban classic as Tyree, the self-proclaimed Urban Griot can write them!Omar Tyree, the New York Time’s bestselling author, 2001 NAACP Image Award recipient for Outstanding Literature in Fiction, and 2006 Phillis Wheatley Literary Award winner for Body of Work in Urban Fiction, has published fourteen novels in fourteen years of publishing. He now launches his fifteen novel, a brand new “CinemaStory” of visual mastery destined to spark a feature film franchise. With The Last Street Novel, Tyree continues to give us cutting edge scriptures of depth, balance, intelligence, and morality, while solidifying himself as the undisputed “Godfather of contemporary urban literature.”For more on Omar Tyree and his work, view his web site at (www.OmarTyree.com).The Last Street Novel An Omar Tyree Classic Summer - 2007Myspace Backgrounds