Claude Brown/Manchild

Abstract: A 4 page book review of Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land, which was originally published in 1965. This is a novel that is a thinly veiled autobiographical account of Brown's childhood and adolescence growing up in Harlem in the 1940s and 50s. In a clear, lucid writing style that brings alive the era and the environment of Brown's background, the author paints a picture of deprivation, brutality and hardship in unflinching detail. No additional sources cited.

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