The Beautiful Struggle von Ta-Nehisi Coates

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 176 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Verlag: Penguin Books UKPenguin
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9780241517208

PRAISE FOR TA-NEHISI COATES:<br><br>A magnificent writer

Oprah Winfrey

*An extraordinary coming-of-age story, adapted from the adult memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Water Dancer and Between the World and Me*<br><br>'Ta-Nehisi Coates is the young James Joyce of the hip-hop generation'Walter Mosley<br><br>This was the abyss where, unguided, black boys were swallowed whole, only to re-emerge on corners and prison tiers<br><br>Ta-Nehisi Coates grew up in the tumultuous 1980's in Baltimore known, back then as the murder capital of the United States.<br><br>With seven siblings, four mothers, and one highly unconventional father: Paul Coates, a larger-than-life Vietnam Vet, Black Panther, Ta-Nehisi's coming of age story is gripping and lays bare the troubled, often violent life of the inner-city, and the author's experience as a young black person in it<br><br>With candor, Ta-Nehisi Coates details the challenges on the streets and within one's family, especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances.

GBTa-Nehisi Coatesis the author ofThe Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer,andBetween the World and Me,which won the National Book Award in 2015. He is the recipient of a National Magazine Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is currently the Sterling Brown endowed chair at Howard University in the English department.

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