An extraordinary memoir from the author of Between the World and Me.

Verso Books, 2016. Paperback, Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Second printing. Looks unread; wrappers clean, corners and edges sharp. Text clean and tight, no marks, creases, or tears.

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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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Bookseller: KnC Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: BN03900004062
Title: The Beautiful Struggle
Author: Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 1784785342
ISBN 13: 9781784785345
Publisher: Verso Books
Date Published: 2016
Pages: 227
Keywords: Black studies, civil rights
Bookseller catalogs: Non-Fiction; Biography; Ethnic Studies;

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