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More copies of this ISBN:Manchild in the Promised Landby Claude Brown
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Manchild in the Promised Land is indeed one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. 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 the book is affirmative and inspiring. Here is the story about the one who "made it," the boy who kept landing on his feet and became a man. Review:Tom WolfeNew York Herald TribuneIncredible! No Negro writer ever told the whole street thing in Harlem: Claude Brown is the first. Review:James Baldwin A tremendous achievement. Review:Tom Wolfe New York Herald Tribune Incredible! No Negro writer ever told the whole street thing in Harlem: Claude Brown is the first. Review:Norman MailerThe first thing I ever read which gave me an idea of what it would be like day by day if I'd grown up in Harlem. Review:Dick SchaapBooksThis is a magnificent book, not a good book, not an interesting book, a magnificent book....It is a guided tour of hell conducted by a man who broke out. Review:Romulus LinneyThe New York Times Book ReviewIt is written with brutal and unvarnished honesty in the plain talk of the people, in language that is fierce, uproarious, obscene and tender. Review:Nat HentoffBook WeekSprung from the alley, a rare cat...As a survivor among the dying and the dead, Brown tells it like it was-and like it still is. Review:Atlanta JournalHe writes about his life — and Harlem — with frank, brutal, and beautiful power. Mr. Brown's graphic narrative will make you laugh, cry, think, and possibly understand. Review:Daniel A. PolingBrown's Harlem is alive in a way that no black ghetto has heretofore been brought to life between book jackets. Review:William MathesLos Angeles TimesSometimes a unique voice speaks out so clearly and with so much passion that it comes to speak for an era, a generation, a people...and we have to listen. Review:James BaldwinA tremendous achievement. Synopsis:This autobiographic novel, in print for more than 30 years, portrays the "lost" generation of African-Americans whose parents left the sharecropping lifestyle of the South for the inner cities of the North. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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