- Social conditions, African Americans, Biography, Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
The autobiography of a young black man raised in Harlem. A realistic description of life in the ghetto.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Claude Brown
- First published
- 1937
- Pages
- 415
- Publisher
- Touchstone, Collier Macmillan, Harlem New York
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780684864181
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- Social conditions
- African Americans
- Biography
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- African American boys
- African American neighborhoods
- African americans, social conditions
- African americans, biography
- Harlem (new york, n.y.), social conditions
- Brown, claude, 1937-2002
- African americans, new york (state), new york
- Drug addicts
“"Run!" Where? Oh, hell! Let's get out of here!”
Author of Manchild in the Promised Land, published to critical acclaim in 1965, which tells the story of his coming of age during the 1940s and 1950s in Harlem. He also published Children of Ham (1976).
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