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Manchild in the promised land Claude Brown.

By: Material type: TextTextNew York : Touchstone, 1999Edition: First Touchstone editionDescription: 415 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780684864181
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E 185.97.B86 .A3 1999
Summary: "Manchild in the Promised Land is indeed one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. This thinly fictionalized account of Charles 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 ghettoes of the 1940s and 1950s ..."--Publisher's note on back cover.
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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 Charles 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 ghettoes of the 1940s and 1950s ..."--Publisher's note on back cover.

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