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Manchild in the promised land / Claude Brown

By: Material type: TextTextEdition: First Touchstone editionDescription: 415 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0684864185
  • 9780684864181
  • 0025173251
  • 9780025173255
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.896073 21
LOC classification:
  • E185.97.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
Item type: Book
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library 921/BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39844500066925

"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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