The young James Joyce of the hip-hop generation.

- Walter Mosley,

A kind of hip-hop <i>Portrait of the Artist</i>.

Guardian

A moving father-and-son story . an intense portrait of those whom the black revolution left behind, but who never broke faith with its tenets.

New York Review of Books

Se alle

A beautifully written, loving portrait of a strong father bringing his sons to manhood.

Booklist

Haunting and healing . a splendid memoir.

Essence

The single best writer on the subject of race in the United States.

New York Observer

A remarkable, blunt portrait of an adolescence filled with danger, chaos, flaws, and tragedy . a love story, dispatched from the frontlines of a family.

Time Out New York

The intellectual heir to James Baldwin.

Financial Times

Told in a dreamy, lyric register redolent of a voiceover in a movie flashback, <i>The Beautiful Struggle</i> is both a touching portrait of filial affection and a paean to the redemptive power of culture.

Prospect

One of the most high-profile commentators on race in the United States ...Reading this book is an intoxicating experience

- Bernardine Evaristo, New Statesman

This book forces us to ask how far American society has really come, and how much further it has to go.

Financial Times

The Beautiful Struggle is an extraordinary memoir from the most important new voice in the US race debate and the author of New York Times bestseller list no. 1 Between the World and Me, hailed by Toni Morrison as "required reading."This small and perfectly formed epic follows the lives of boys on the journey to manhood in black America and beyond in 1980s Baltimore, a city on the verge of chaos. These youngsters needed to learn fast, and Ta-Nehisi's father, Paul, was a fine teacher: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian, and an autodidact who launched a publishing company in his basement. The Beautiful Struggle is a moving father-and-son story about the reality that tests us, and the love that saves us.
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Coates is the essential chronicler of black America, and his first memoir is a small and beautiful epic of growing up in 1980s Baltimore
The young James Joyce of the hip-hop generation.
A small and beautiful epic of growing up in 1980s Baltimore, from the author of Between the World and Me

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781784785345
Publisert
2016-02-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
256 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter

Biographical note

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. Coates has received the National Magazine Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, and the George Polk Award for his Atlantic cover story "The Case for Reparations." His second memoir Between the World and Me was a hugely acclaimed and best selling book, shortlisted for the National Book Award. In 2015, Coates was awarded a MacArthur Genius Award.