S.R.O.
By: Robert Deane Pharr.
Series: Old school books
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
Subjects: African Americans -- Fiction.; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: SRO
Description: This powerful and heavily autobiographical novel chronicles the disconcerting initiation of college-educated waiter and writer Sid Bailey into the teeming life of the Logan, a Harlem welfare hotel. Bailey gradually sheds his straight ways as he becomes adept in the ways of the motley crew of addicts, pushers, prostitutes, winos, and unclassifiable misfits who live there - learning much about himself and the life of Harlem's streets.