Manchild in the Promised Land

By BROWN CLAUDE, Claude Brown, Claude Brown

Book Overview

With millions of copies in print, Manchild in the Promised Land is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time--the definitive account of African-American youth in Harlem of the 1940s and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684864185
• ISBN13: 9780684864181
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Touchstone
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Emotional to the tenth power

Mr. Brown has written a novel that brings home to all that have been raised in a big city how some have it tougher than themselves. I was raised in the same era in Detroit but it was a different experience. Hard drugs had not arrived on the white streets yet. Crime was at the fringes of our society and some youths did, some didn't. At the conclusion of the novel I was sincerely touched as he thought of his friends that hadn't made it and the the ones that had. We all have surely had the same thoughts and I sometimes wonder of the few of us that did well in our lives how many of the others didn't receive the same breaks. They were still our friends, and would be today if we seen them. They live forever in our minds and hearts and we do hope for the best of a good life, at least close to what we have had but there are probably more sad storys than not,better we don't know the pain could be to great. A striking novel and I will recommend to all I know.