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Home to Harlem (Black Classics) Book

An enlightening trip through Harlem--from its colorful street life and its incomparable jazz venues to its back rooms, where drinking, drugging, gambling, and women helped some take a load off. Jake Brown is a lover of life and takes in all that Harlem has to offer like a long, cool drink. Though he's subjected to the same oppression as those around him, he chooses to rise above it and delight in the blessings he does have. Ray, on the other hand has been defeated one too many times, and despite, or perhaps because of, having a formal education, he is bent on revolt. First published in 1928, this was Claude McKay's first novel.Read More

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  • Product Description

    During World War I Jake Brown deserts the army to pursue his loves and adventures in Harlem, where he carries out his own personal battles against the black bourgeoisie and their white counterparts. The white man`s war is no place for a black man, he argues, concluding that black folk are so little driven by greed and less hampered by sexual inhibitions, that they don`t need to go to war. Unfortunately for Jake, Uncle Sam doesn`t care too much for his views on life, he needs some cannon fodder fast. Jake fits the bill perfectly. `Home To Harlem` is a comic-tragic novel of a little guy standing up to the big guy and winning while losing.

  • 1874509980
  • 9781874509981
  • Claude McKay
  • 8 June 2000
  • The X Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 240
  • New edition
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