Product details
ISBN
9781784877583
Published
2022-09-29
Publisher
Vintage Publishing; Vintage Classics
Weight
164 gr
Height
178 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
14 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
224
Author
Biographical note
CLAUDE McKAY was born in Jamaica, and moved to the U.S. in 1912 to study at the Tuskgee Institute. In 1928, he published his most famous novel, Home to Harlem, which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature. His Selected Poems was published posthumously, and in 1977 he was named the national poet of Jamaica.VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIES
Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history.
'Why did I want to mix mahself up in a white folk's war? It ain't ever was any of black folks' affair'
When Jake Brown joins the army during the First World War, he is treated more like a slave than a soldier. After deserting his post to escape the racial violence he is facing, Jake travels back home to Harlem. But despite the distance, Jake cannot seem to escape the past and the explosive ways in which it can culminate.
Written with brutal accuracy, Home to Harlem is an extraordinary work, and was the first American bestseller by a Black writer.
'One of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance' Washington Post
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Product details
ISBN
9781784877583
Published
2022-09-29
Publisher
Vintage Publishing; Vintage Classics
Weight
164 gr
Height
178 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
14 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
224
Author