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James Baldwin
A tremendous achievement.
Tom Wolfe
Manchild in the Promised Land is Claude Brown's unforgettable epic of growing up as a boy on the streets of Harlem. His Zola-esque gift for slices of life is made all the more striking by his brilliant insights into character and social pressures.
Tom Wolfe
New York Herald Tribune
Incredible! No Negro writer ever told the whole street thing in Harlem: Claude Brown is the first.
Norman Mailer
The first thing I ever read which gave me an idea of what it would be like day by day if I'd grown up in Harlem.
Dick Schaap
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This is a magnificent book, not a good book, not an interesting book, a magnificent book....It is a guided tour of hell conducted by a man who broke out.
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Dick Schaap Books This is a magnificent book, not a good book, not an interesting book, a magnificent book....It is a guided tour of hell conducted by a man who broke out.
Manchild in the Promised Land
Manchild in the Promised Land,Claude Brown,Touchstone,0684864185,1937-,Afro-Americans,Biography,Biography & Autobiography,Biography/Autobiography,Blacks In The U.S.,Brown, Claude,,Ethnic Issues,Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General,Harlem (New York, N.Y.),People of Color,Social conditions,Sociology,American English,Biography & Autobiography / People of Color,Biography: general,Modern fiction,New York,Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000,Second World War, 1939-1945
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