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HOME TO HARLEM

by Claude McKay

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  • Paperback
  • first
Condition
Moderate wear, small tape mark residue lower front cover,/none
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About This Item

This is a well preserved copy of McKay's first novel. Someone has redundantly reminded us of of the original year of publication on the front end paper. But call this one the best deal on the paperback marketplace at this price, which is the first Pocket Books edition, 1965.

Synopsis

Home to Harlem was the first best-seller by an African-American. First printed by Harper and Brothers in 19278, the novel quickly went to subsequent printings. Jack Brown, a black soldier who deserts the Great War in France and returns to Home to Harlem in the novel. The city’s nightlife is full of temptation for Brown after the horrors of the Great War. The grit and grime and hardness of the industrial city are pitted against the idealism of rural life, while characters live the frustration of intellectual potential and aspiration limited by prejudiced circumstances.McKay was criticized for depicting stereotypes of lower-class blacks in the novel, while others celebrated what they considered realistic views of Harlem in the 1920s.

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Bookseller
Rutter's Rarities US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
biblio1921
Title
HOME TO HARLEM
Author
Claude McKay
Illustrator
Settzer
Format/Binding
Graphic wrappers, with designed cover art.
Book Condition
Used - Moderate wear, small tape mark residue lower front cover,
Jacket Condition
none
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First, thus
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
Pocket Books
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1965
Pages
180 pgs.
Size
Mass market format
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
African-American Literature, U.S. Fiction, Black Writers

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