The beautiful struggle : a memoir / Ta-Nehisi Coates.
"A memoir from Ta-Nehisi Coates, in which he 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"-- Provided by publisher.
As a child, Coates was seen by his father as too sensitive and lacking focus. Paul Coates was a Vietnam vet who'd been part of the Black Panthers and was dedicated to reading and publishing the history of African civilization. When it came to his sons, he was committed to raising proud Black men equipped to deal with a racist society, during a turbulent period in the collapsing city of Baltimore where they lived. Coates details with candor the challenges of dealing with his tough-love father, the influence of his mother, and the dynamics of his extended family, including his brother "Big Bill," who was on a very different path than Ta-Nehisi. -- adapted from jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781984894021
- ISBN: 1984894021
- ISBN: 9781984894038
- ISBN: 198489403X
- Physical Description: 157 pages : map, genealogical table ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Adapted for young adults" -- Title page. "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. |
Target Audience Note: | Ages 12 up Delacorte Press. |
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Genre: | Young adult nonfiction. Biographies. Juvenile works. Young adult literature. Autobiographies. Biographies. |
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The Beautiful Struggle (Adapted for Young Adults)
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Author Notes
The Beautiful Struggle (Adapted for Young Adults)
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. (Bowker Author Biography)