Losing My Cool Love, Literature, and a Black Man's Escape from the Crowd

Name: Losing My Cool Love, Literature, and a Black Man's Escape from the Crowd
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ISBN: 9780143119623

ISBN-10: 0143119621

ISBN-13: 9780143119623

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Authors: Thomas Chatterton Williams

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"A provocative, intellectual memoir" ( USA Today)-from a remarkable new literary voice. Growing up, Thomas Chatterton Williams knew he loved three things in life: his parents, literature, and the intoxicating hip-hop culture that surrounded him. For years, he managed to juggle two disparate lifestyles, "keeping it real" in his friends' eyes and studying for the SATs under his father's strict tutelage-until it all threatened to spin out of control. Written with remarkable candor and emotional depth, Losing My Coolportrays the allure and danger of hip-hop culture with the authority of a true fan who's lived through it all, while demonstrating the saving grace of literature and the power of…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/26/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.95" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English