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Manchild in the Promised Land

1965·402 pages·Nonfiction

Biography History & Politics

classics memoir

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.

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Manchild in the Promised Land

Year

1965

Pages

402

Type

Nonfiction

Biography History & Politics Literary Fiction

Tags

classics memoir

Description

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.

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