Manchild in the promised land

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415 pages

English language

Published 1965 by Macmillan, Collier Macmillan.

OCLC Number:
21335254

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A fictionalized account of Brown's growing up in Harlem. It portrays Harlem as a complex society of children, young people, hardworking parents, hustlers, drug dealers, prostitutes, and numbers runners; the police, the action, the street, the violence, sex, humor, and the language.

9 editions

Subjects

  • Brown, Claude, 1937-
  • African Americans -- Biography.
  • African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
  • Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
  • New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.