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The beautiful struggle a memoir : adapted for young adults

Adapted for teen readers, a father-son memoir documents the National Book Award-winning author's youth in the "murder capital" of 1980s Baltimore and his relationship with his father, Vietnam veteran Paul Coates, throughout the latter's activism as a Black Panther and Afrocentric scholar.

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Main Author: Coates, Ta-Nehisi (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Delacorte Press, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
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Coates, Ta-Nehisi > Young adult nonfiction.
African Americans > Maryland > Baltimore > Biography > Young adult nonfiction.
African Americans > Maryland > Baltimore > Social conditions > Young adult nonfiction.
Fathers and sons > Maryland > Baltimore > Biography > Young adult nonfiction.
Street life > Maryland > Baltimore > Young adult nonfiction.
Baltimore (Md.) > Biography > Young adult nonfiction.
Young adult nonfiction.
Autobiographies > Young adult.
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Summary:Adapted for teen readers, a father-son memoir documents the National Book Award-winning author's youth in the "murder capital" of 1980s Baltimore and his relationship with his father, Vietnam veteran Paul Coates, throughout the latter's activism as a Black Panther and Afrocentric scholar.
Item Description:"This work is based on The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood, originally published in hardcover by Spiegel & Grau, New York, in 2008."-- Publisher email.
Physical Description:157 pages : map, genealogical table ; 22 cm
Audience:Ages 12 up
ISBN:9781984894021
1984894021
9781984894038
198489403X
Author Notes:Ta-Nehisi Coates was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 30, 1975. He attended Howard University. He is a correspondent at The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle and Between the World and Me, which won a National Book Award for nonfiction in 2015 and the 2016 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. He was included on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

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