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Original Title:	Manchild in the Promised Land
ISBN:	0684864185 (ISBN13: 9780684864181)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Danny, Claude, Butch
Setting:	New York State(United States)

Manchild in the Promised Land

Claude Brown

Paperback | Pages: 416 pages

Rating: 4.35 | 7483 Users | 323 Reviews

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Title	:	Manchild in the Promised Land
Author	:	Claude Brown
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 416 pages
Published	:	June 3rd 1999 by Touchstone (first published 1965)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Cultural. African American. Classics. Race

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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.

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Ratings: 4.35 From 7483 Users | 323 Reviews

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Manchild in the Promised Land (1965) is an autobiographical novel written by Claude Brown. It tells about the author's coming of age amidst poverty and violence in Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s and has frequently appeared on banned book lists.I read this coming-of-age story when I was a kid growing up in a single family household living in the projects in the Bronx. It touched the core of my soul, and gave voice to a voiceless girl-child of color. This is a must read if one is to understand

I wanted to like it because the first 40 pages were compelling. But I soon realized that there was no plot in sight. Every single vignette was all about how many people he stole from or beat up. How much he terrorized his parents. There seemed to be no inner reflection and character development. Blah!! On to the next book...

I started going to night school Most of the cats who were out there on the corners dealing stuff now were the newcomers. Most of the cats I came up with were in jail or dead or strung out on drugs. Id been out on street life long before these cats ever knew how to role a reefer. I could do what I wanted and not worry about anybody naming me lame. Id been through the street life thing. At seventeen, I was ready to retire from it. Id already had ten or eleven years at it.Claude Brown. Born in

Along with "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" this is without a doubt the most compelling book I've read. Quite simply, it's incredibly entertaining and damn near impossible to put down. You may very well find yourself awake at three o'clock in the morning satisfying your urge to discover what memories of Harlem Mr. Brown has to share on the next page. This desire to read was contributed to, for me at least, by the simplicity of the writing. There is no need for a dictionary when reading this

An engaging and insighful read about a boy growing up and out of Harlem, though more out of the expected lifestyle than the neighborhood. Brown doesn't pull any punches, giving his own bad and good deeds freely, although never without thought later as to the why's. As much about Harlem itself and what it expected from it's youth, as it is about his own story. The landscape changes when heroin or "the plague" takes over, affecting everyone he knows in some fashion. Brown is able to find goodness

I first read Manchild on the Promised Land at 12 years old which started my love affair with urban fiction. Claude Brown, a first generation Harlemite, tells his journey as he navigates the streets of Harlem in the 40s and 50s; how he got started in the streets at the age of six, how he survived, and most importantly how he lived to tell about it. MITP has all the urban elements - gangs, hustlers, drug dealers, number runners, pimps and prostitutes. Sonny Boy's introduction to "the life" started

When seeing reviews for books by James Baldwin, remembering my 1960s fascination with his worldview, I tend to think, too, of Brown's Manchild. Here's what one less impressed reviewer wrote "KIRKUS REVIEWManchild is a naturalistic autobiography which carries Brown through his Harlem childhood and adolescence to his middle twenties, Some of the names are apparently changed, but the detail and dialogue are authentically unsparing. The accent is on drugs and sex during the Forties and Fifties.