Description
| Product ID: | 9781529069204 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Title: | The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man |
| Authors: | Author: James Weldon Johnson |
| Page Count: | 176 |
| Subjects: | Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Georgia, New York, Mississippi, c 1800 to c 1900, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A compellingly powerful novel about racial relations that is as relevant now as it was one hundred years ago. <p>James Weldon Johnson’s <i>The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man</i> is a powerful, trailblazing novel that exposes the intricate relationship between race and class in late nineteenth-century America.<br><br>Complete & Unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is introduced by Dr Sam Halliday.<br><br>After losing his mother at a very young age, the narrator is thrust from his comfortable, middle-class environment, afforded by his distant but aristocratic father, into the wider world. His passion for music begins in Georgia’s all-black church community and takes him from New York, where he plays ragtime for a rich white gentleman, to the South, where he witnesses lynchings and out of fear gives up his passion, as well as his race, to pass for white. Relevant to this day, <i>The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man</i> is an unflinching account of black experience in America.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-01-20 |