Manchild in the Promised Land Manchild in the Promised Land

Manchild in the Promised Land

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Publisher Description

With more than two million copies in print, Manchild in the Promised Land is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time—the definitive account of African-American youth in Harlem of the 1940s and 1950s, and a seminal work of modern literature.

Published during a literary era marked by the ascendance of black writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Alex Haley, 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 later, not only because of its fierce and dignified anger, not only because the struggles of urban youth are as deeply felt today as they were in Brown’s time, but also because of its inspiring message. Now with an introduction by Nathan McCall, here is the story about the one who “made it,” the boy who kept landing on his feet and grew up to become a man.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2010
September 28
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
416
Pages
PUBLISHER
Scribner
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
4.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Msimes ,

Excellent reader

This is a great book. An amazing page turner. Can’t wait to read it again after 10 years.

Young niño ,

Amazing

The greatest book I've read so far so raw and real this the life most of if not all of us came from

Belochen ,

Manic hold promise land

Enjoyable book, a good painting of life in Harlem in he 50's. Some part are a little too long and repetitive, but still well written.

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