9781451631579-145163157X-Manchild in the Promised Land

Manchild in the Promised Land

ISBN-13: 9781451631579
ISBN-10: 145163157X
Edition: Reprint
Author: Claude Brown
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Scribner
Format: Paperback 416 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781451631579
ISBN-10: 145163157X
Edition: Reprint
Author: Claude Brown
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Scribner
Format: Paperback 416 pages

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Manchild in the Promised Land (ISBN-13: 9781451631579 and ISBN-10: 145163157X), written by authors Claude Brown, was published by Scribner in 2011. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Authors (Arts & Literature, Black & African American, Cultural & Regional, Mid Atlantic, Regional U.S.) books. You can easily purchase or rent Manchild in the Promised Land (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Authors books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.44.

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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.

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