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100 1 $aCoates, Ta-Nehisi $q(Ta-Nehisi Coates).
245 14 $aThe Beautiful Struggle$h[electronic resource].
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House Publishing Group,$c2008.
500 $aTitle from eBook information screen.
520 $aAn exceptional father-son story about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us.Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian and new-age believer in free love, an autodidact who launched a publishing company in his basement dedicated to telling the true history of African civilization. Most of all, he was a wily tactician whose mission was to carry his sons across the shoals of inner-city adolescence--and through the collapsing civilization of Baltimore in the Age of Crack--and into the safe arms of Howard University, where he worked so his children could attend for free. Among his brood of seven, his main challenges were Ta-Nehisi, spacey and sensitive and almost comically miscalibrated for his environment, and Big Bill, charismatic and all-too-ready for the challenges of the streets. The Beautiful Struggle follows their divergent paths through this turbulent period, and their father's steadfast efforts--assisted by mothers, teachers, and a body of myths, histories, and rituals conjured from the past to meet the needs of a troubled present--to keep them whole in a world that seemed bent on their destruction. With a remarkable ability to reimagine both the lost world of his father's generation and the terrors and wonders of his own youth, Coates offers readers a small and beautiful epic about boys trying to become men in black America and beyond.
533 $aElectronic reproduction.$bNew York :$cRandom House Publishing Group,$d2008.$nRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 766 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 372 KB).
538 $aRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 766 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 372 KB).
653 #0 $aBiography & Autobiography
653 #0 $aNonfiction
655 7 $aElectronic books.$2local
776 1 $cOriginal$z0385520360
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