Manchild in the promised land
By: Claude Brown.
Publisher: Macmillan; Collier Macmillan
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York; Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
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.
Genres: Biography.
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.