The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
de Coates, Ta-Nehisi
- Nuevo
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0385527462
- ISBN 13
- 9780385527460
- Librería
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Sinopsis
An exceptional father-son story about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us.Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian and new-age believer in free love, an autodidact who launched a publishing company in his basement dedicated to telling the true history of African civilization. Most of all, he was a wily tactician whose mission was to carry his sons across the shoals of inner-city adolescence--and through the collapsing civilization of Baltimore in the Age of Crack--and into the safe arms of Howard University, where he worked so his children could attend for free. Among his brood of seven, his main challenges were Ta-Nehisi, spacey and sensitive and almost comically miscalibrated for his environment, and Big Bill, charismatic and all-too-ready for the challenges of the streets. The Beautiful Struggle follows their divergent paths through this turbulent period, and their father's steadfast efforts--assisted by mothers, teachers, and a body of myths, histories, and rituals conjured from the past to meet the needs of a troubled present--to keep them whole in a world that seemed bent on their destruction. With a remarkable ability to reimagine both the lost world of his father's generation and the terrors and wonders of his own youth, Coates offers readers a small and beautiful epic about boys trying to become men in black America and beyond.
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- Librería
- The Book Escape (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 211621
- Título
- The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
- Autor
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo New
- ISBN 10
- 0385527462
- ISBN 13
- 9780385527460
- Editorial
- Spiegel & Grau
- Lugar de publicación
- U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2009
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Sociology;
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