This modern classic is ';a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood' in 1930s Harlemwith a foreword by James Baldwin (Publishers Weekly). Depression-era Harlem is home for twelve-year-old Francie Coffin and her family, and it's both a place of refuge and the source of untold dangers for her and her poor, working class family. The beloved ';daddy' of the title indeed becomes a number runner when he is unable to find legal work, and while one of Francie's brothers dreams of becoming a chemist, the other is already in a gang.
Francie is a dreamer, too, but there are risks in everything from going to the movies to walking down the block, and her pragmatism eventually outweighs her hope; ';We was all poor and black and apt to stay that way, and that was that.' First published in 1970, Daddy Was a Number Runner is one of the seminal novels of the black experience in America. The New York Times Book Review proclaimed it ';a most important novel.'
| ISBN: | 9781558617087 |
| Publication date: | 1st December 2002 |
| Author: | Meriwether, Louise |
| Publisher: | The Feminist Press at CUNY |
| Format: | Ebook |
This modern classic is ';a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood' in 1930s Harlemwith a foreword by James Baldwin (Publishers Weekly). Depression-era Harlem is home for twelve-year-old Francie Coffin and her family, and it's both a place of refuge and the source of untold dangers for her and her poor, working class family.
Paperback, Ebook. £11.76. Digital. Available Immediately. Country restrictions apply..
Daddy Was a Number Runner was written by Meriwether, Louise and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY
£11.76. Digital. Available Immediately. Country restrictions apply..