BROWN, Claude.
Manchild in the Promised Land.
New York: The Macmillan Company , 1965.
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"For where does one run to when he’s already in the promised land?": First Edition of Manchild in the Promised Land; Inscribed by Claude Brown
First edition of this classic autobiographical coming-of-age story. Octavo, original red cloth, red top stain. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front pastedown, "To Johanne, a great girl and a beautiful person. With best wishes for the coming [sic] events. Claude Brown." Very good in a very good dust jacket with rubbing and toning to the cloth extremities. Jacket photographs by Leroy McLucas.
'Manchild in the Promised Land' tells the story of Claude Brown's coming of age amidst the poverty and violence of 1940s and '50s Harlem. The book frequently appeared on banned book list for its offensive language, violence, and degradation of women but is celebrated by critics for its dedication to realism. "[W]ritten in brutal and unvarnished honesty in the plain talk of the people, in language that is fierce, uproarious, obscene and tender, but always sensible and direct. And to its enormous credit, this youthful autobiography gives us its devastating portrait of life without one cry of self-pity, outrage or malice, with no caustic sermons or searing rhetoric" (The New York TImes).
Manchild in the Promised Land.
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