Manchild in the Promised Land

Name: Manchild in the Promised Land
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ISBN: 9780025173200

ISBN-10: 0025173200

ISBN-13: 9780025173200

Edition: N/A

Authors: Claude Brown

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Manchild in the Promised Land is indeed one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem has been heralded as the definitive account of everyday life for the first generation of African Americans raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s. When the book was first published in 1965, it was praised for its realistic portrayal of Harlem -- the children, young people, hardworking parents; the hustlers, drug dealers, prostitutes, and numbers runners; the police; the violence, sex, and humor. The book continues to resonate generations…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Publisher: Scribner
Binding: Children's Board Books
Pages: 415
Weight: 1.474
Language: English