Description
| Product ID: | 9780241517208 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Beautiful Struggle |
| Authors: | Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Page Count: | 176 |
| Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage fiction: True stories told as fiction, True stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism and anti-racism, Personal & social issues: family issues (Children's / Teenage), Personal & social issues: racism & multiculturalism (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 12 years |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating *An extraordinary coming-of-age story, adapted from the adult memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Water Dancer and Between the World and Me*'Ta-Nehisi Coates is the young James Joyce of the hip-hop generation' Walter MosleyThis was the abyss where, unguided, black boys were swallowed whole, only to re-emerge on corners and prison tiersTa-Nehisi Coates grew up in the tumultuous 1980's in Baltimore known, back then as the murder capital of the United States. With seven siblings, four mothers, and one highly unconventional father: Paul Coates, a larger-than-life Vietnam Vet, Black Panther, Ta-Nehisi's coming of age story is gripping and lays bare the troubled, often violent life of the inner-city, and the author's experience as a young black person in itWith candor, Ta-Nehisi Coates details the challenges on the streets and within one's family, especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances. *An extraordinary coming-of-age story, adapted from the adult memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Water Dancer and Between the World and Me* |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-02-04 |
