Manchild in the Promised Land

Locations
Call Number: Adult BOCD / Nonfiction / Biography / Brown, Claude
On Shelf At: Pittsfield Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Pittsfield Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Nonfiction / Biography / Brown, Claude	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact discs.
Unabridged.
"Tracks Every 3 Minutes."
Read by Cary Hite.
One of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time, Manchild in the Promised Land is a seminal work of modern literature published during a literary era marked by the ascendance of black writers. 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 African Americans raised in the northern ghettos of the 1940s and '50s. When the book was first published in 1965, it was praised for its realistic portrayal of Harlem--the children, young people, and 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.

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Manchild in the Promised Land submitted by jeff on August 21, 2020, 9:43pm What does it say about us that AADL doesn’t list a single printed copy of this classic of the African American experience?