Manchild in the Promised Land
The autobiography of a young black man raised in Harlem. A realistic description of life in the ghetto.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Year
- 2011
- ISBN-13
- 9781451631579
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- HarlemComing of ageUrban poverty
Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWon(1966)
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